CGI interface to texvc moved to PHP (texvc_cgi.phtml). It's much more sane now.
It now does another parsing to generate TeX. I think that's more efficient than caching generated TeX in database. OTOH it shouldn't have to parse it twice if both image+HTML and TeX are requested. Well, that certainly isn't going to be performance bottleneck.
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