How to enable parallel PDF export in emacs org-mode [closed]

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Recently I start to write a long article using org-mode. My article contains pounds of images, tables and code. So when I import my org file to pdf, the emacs will freeze for more than one minute to produce the pdf file. However in my opinion, I would like to continue to write or correct my article during the exporting.

So here is the question, can emacs parallelly process the exports with multiple thread or multiple processors?

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Of course you can, it's emacs!

(info "(org) The export dispatcher")

‘C-a’ Toggle asynchronous export. Asynchronous export uses an external Emacs process that is configured with a specified initialization file.

 While exporting asynchronously, the output is not displayed.  It is
 stored in a list called “the export stack”, and can be viewed from
 there.  The stack can be reached by calling the dispatcher with a
 double ‘C-u’ prefix argument, or with ‘&’ key from the dispatcher.

 To make this behavior the default, customize the variable
 ‘org-export-in-background’.

So, you can export asynchronously to PDF like this: C-eC-alp.