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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:58:06 -0500
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:58:06 -0500
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] autoroff
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I once read a paper that described how someone repackaged TeX as a
library, so an editor could re-typeset your document on every keystroke
avoiding startup overhead.  On a modern machine it apparently had
very good interactive performance.