This talk offers a deep technical dive into Paper Muncher’s architecture—highlighting how a data-oriented design approach underpins its custom layout engine, rendering pipeline, and performance optimizations. We’ll explore how Paper Muncher balances support for modern CSS with the demands of high-speed, reliable document generation.

The session includes an in-depth look at internal components such as the DOM, style resolution, box tree layout, font rendering, and rasterization. We’ll also demonstrate how data-oriented principles improve cache efficiency, minimize memory overhead, and enable faster processing.

Additionally, we’ll cover general usage scenarios, including local and cloud-based CLI workflows for generating PDFs, images, and other print outputs from static web pages.