diff --git a/src/typstsharp.tests/Tests.cs b/src/typstsharp.tests/Tests.cs
index 4a5b967..441df45 100644
--- a/src/typstsharp.tests/Tests.cs
+++ b/src/typstsharp.tests/Tests.cs
@@ -910,6 +910,26 @@ public async Task WarningsFromADocumentCannotBeMutatedByCallers()
         await Assert.That(document.Warnings is string[]).IsFalse();
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A clean compile takes a different branch from one that reports warnings, so the empty case
+    /// needs the same guarantees: enumerable, and not a mutable array handed out to callers.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task WarningsFromACleanCompileAreEmptyAndStillImmutable()
+    {
+        using var compiler = TypstCompiler.FromSource("= No warnings here");
+        using var document = compiler.CompileToDocument();
+
+        await Assert.That(document.Warnings.Count).IsEqualTo(0);
+        await Assert.That(document.Warnings is string[]).IsFalse();
+        await Assert.That(document.Warnings.Any()).IsFalse();
+
+        document.Dispose();
+
+        // Warnings are copied out of native memory eagerly, so they outlive the document.
+        await Assert.That(document.Warnings.Count).IsEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
     private const string TwoPageSource = """
                                          First page
                                          #pagebreak()
diff --git a/src/typstsharp/TypstDocument.cs b/src/typstsharp/TypstDocument.cs
index 5813764..e04953f 100644
--- a/src/typstsharp/TypstDocument.cs
+++ b/src/typstsharp/TypstDocument.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.Buffers;
+using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
 using Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles;
 
 namespace typstsharp;
@@ -52,14 +53,26 @@ internal unsafe TypstDocument(CsBindgen.CompileResult native)
             throw new InvalidOperationException("The Typst compiler reported warnings but returned none.");
         }
 
-        // Warnings are small and are copied eagerly so that they stay usable after disposal.
-        var warnings = new string[warningCount];
-        for (int i = 0; i < warnings.Length; i++)
+        // Warnings are small and are copied eagerly so that they stay usable after disposal. A
+        // clean compile is the common case and reaches the shared empty collection, which spares
+        // every such document both the zero-length array and the wrapper around it.
+        IReadOnlyList<string> warnings;
+        if (warningCount == 0)
         {
-            var warning = native.warnings[i];
-            warnings[i] = warning.message_ptr != null
-                ? System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(new ReadOnlySpan<byte>(warning.message_ptr, checked((int)warning.message_len)))
-                : string.Empty;
+            warnings = ReadOnlyCollection<string>.Empty;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            var collected = new string[warningCount];
+            for (int i = 0; i < collected.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var warning = native.warnings[i];
+                collected[i] = warning.message_ptr != null
+                    ? System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(new ReadOnlySpan<byte>(warning.message_ptr, checked((int)warning.message_len)))
+                    : string.Empty;
+            }
+
+            warnings = Array.AsReadOnly(collected);
         }
 
         long nativeByteCount = 0;
@@ -69,7 +82,7 @@ internal unsafe TypstDocument(CsBindgen.CompileResult native)
         }
 
         _outputCount = outputCount;
-        _warnings = Array.AsReadOnly(warnings);
+        _warnings = warnings;
         _nativeByteCount = nativeByteCount;
 
         // Taking ownership must be the last thing that happens. An object with a finalizer is queued