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TeX/LaTeX don't compete on performance and don't handle dynamic document updates. Browser text layout is a much harder problem.



I don't think that's true today. Big difference running TeX on a 7Mhz 68000 and a 8 core multi GHz cpu.

See also:

https://hyphenation.org/

https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly




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