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Leaving the snarky/“correct” answer for the comments: ConTeXt is much faster than LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, so it's obviously the best solution here ;)

Max Chernoff
– Max Chernoff

2026-01-31 10:26:33 +00:00
Commented 20 hours ago
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but regardless of engine, externalising the plots and pictures will be much faster, so, if you set the document up sensibly, that is not a significant advantage for luatex. where you might gain might be if you're creating a tagged document and you don't want to disable tagging during development. pdflatex needs more compilation runs than lualatex. but this probably only applies if you are playing with tagging, rather than using it.

cfr
– cfr

2026-02-01 02:39:12 +00:00
Commented 3 hours ago

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