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LaTeX is just fundamentally not that fast, especially when pulling in lots of packages. I'm running it on a server with a i7-12700K and 64 GB of RAM, but I didn't really notice a slowdown when running it on an old laptop, they're both about the same speed as the official overleaf. With longer or more complex documents, I usually split it into multiple files and edit them on their own, then use
\include{}
to being them into the final file with proper formatting and the right preamble. Of course, thats using a local MikTeX install, so YMMV.To be honest, I've always wondered why you can't like "pre-compile" a bunch of packages into a binary and
include
that to speed things up. I'm sure there are good reasons, I just don't know them.You are correct, LaTeX isn’t very fast in general, but my 8 core ryzen server with 8GB of ram assigned to the vm running overleaf is usually twice as fast as the official overleaf unpaid tier. The specs you listed should produce much better results than the official overleaf. This seems weird to me.
As an example, I just compiled my thesis, which is about 60 pages, lots of references, pictures, and generally a heavy document. On my server it takes about 35 seconds, the official overleaf just times out (pay or we won’t compile your document).
Hmmm I guess I haven't really compared them on documents over about 20 pages, and even then it was just a qualitative judgment.