ChromicPDF: Benchmarks & Runtime characteristics
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Backing up claims with numbers. How a background Chrome process outperforms spawning new processes.
Programmatically generating PDF documents is a common requirement in many of our client projects at bitcrowd. While in Ruby there is a multitude of battle-proven libraries to choose from, the PDF library landscape in the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem is just beginning to evolve. Today, we introduce ChromicPDF, a fast and convenient Chrome-based HTML-to-PDF converter, written in Elixir.