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Typst installed in 2.20 seconds and compiled its first PDF in 90 milliseconds. Then we typed a Markdown heading into it and watched the whole thing fall over.
We pulled 8 repositories from the GitHub REST API into a CSV and had Typst typeset a table and a bar chart from it in 0.20 seconds. Two things broke on the way, and one of them took the longest to diagnose.
We ran the most downloaded Typst CV template on a clean Mac. It produced a resume with five missing font families, no icons, and exit code 0. Then we built our own template and generated 8 branded PDFs in 0.78 seconds.
We compiled matched 1,000 section documents in Typst and in LaTeX. Typst took 0.73 seconds, Tectonic took 1.81, and Tectonic's very first run took 523.05. Typst also used 2.8 times the memory doing it.