textmate/latex.tmbundle

[question] is "Latex Watch" mostly a latexmk wrapper or is there more?

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taiya commented

Is the latex watch mostly a UI wrapper over latexmk, or do you guys do something else on top of it? (like caching the parsing of the imported packages?)

!TL;DR
As I need to work across OS's extensively, I am transitioning to VisualStudioCode for most of my coding (C++,Python,Latex). Regarding Latex compile, it still seem to me that TextMate compiles documents a lot faster than VSCode, and I would like to understand why that is the case!

sanssecours commented

Is the latex watch mostly a UI wrapper over latexmk, or do you guys do something else on top of it?

Basically LaTeX Watch

  1. compiles a TeX file using Latexmk,
  2. displays the resulting PDF file, and
  3. checks the log file for errors/warnings.

The script repeats these steps every time a file was changed. You can check out the main loop of the script here.

(like caching the parsing of the imported packages?)

The script does not do any additional caching.

taiya commented

Thanks! So there should be no performance difference