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Typst speeds up convergence check 334x, fixing 14-min compile regression

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A performance regression in Typst 0.15 caused a 300-page document to compile in 14 minutes instead of 1m17s. The bottleneck was a new introspection analysis step that iterated over 11.6 million entries without deduplication. By deduplicating and reducing iterations to just 3 distinct introspections, the fix achieves a 334x speedup.

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The fix is impressive, but the regression itself highlights how easily a well-intentioned feature can balloon into a quadratic nightmare without proper profiling.
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120,001 introspections, 3 distinct: making Typst's convergence check 334 faster →
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