I benchmarked 6 PDF engines ā the fastest is not the one Iād pick
Summary
Speedata's Patrick Gundlach benchmarks six PDF engines (speedata Publisher, Typst, pdflatex, LuaLaTeX, WeasyPrint, Apache FOP) on a mail-merge task and analyzes both raw speed and quality of typesetting. The results reveal that Typst is fastest at large page counts, but speed alone isn't enough; adaptive, real-world layout capabilities in speedata Publisher can outperform others in complex documents, underscoring the tradeoffs between throughput and layout control.