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    Comment #45606849

    Thank you for the information!

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    Comment #45601785

    There is a pure rust library for rendering pdfs to png(or bitmap) and svg: https://github.com/LaurenzV/hayro . It is used by typst for pdf image[1]. Although it might not be as mat…

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    Comment #41984646

    Cool project! I like the idea of easily sharing LaTeX formulas. It's impressive how smooth it works right in the browser. I've always thought compiling LaTeX in WebAssembly would b…

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    Comment #40644206

    Sounds interesting. Is there a open issue for this? I found https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/8505 but it seems that that specific issue is closed.

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    Comment #40562933

    One cool feature of duckdb is that you can directly run sql against a pandas dataframe/arrow table.[1] The seamless integration is amazing. [1]: https://duckdb.org/docs/api/python/…

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    Comment #40560809

    How does this compare to duckdb/polars? I wonder if GPU based compute engine is a good idea. GPU memory is expensive and limited. The bandwidth between GPU and main memory isn't ve…

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    Comment #40523926

    I used to think read is always faster than write in ssd. But in figure 5.3 and figure 5.4, it looks like in ssd, read iops is lower than write iops. When queue depth is low(like qd…

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    Comment #40508269

    Not really. I think the wasm file is only translated once and most time is spent on executing it.

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    Comment #40499484

    It remind me of typst, which use wasmi as its wasm plugin executor. - https://typst.app/docs/reference/foundations/plugin/

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    Comment #39037140

    It is. repo here: https://github.com/typst/typst

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