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@@ -13,23 +13,7 @@ The implementations The C implementation provides both a shared library (`libcmark`) and a standalone program `cmark` that converts CommonMark to HTML. It is written in standard C99 and has no library dependencies. The parser is -very fast, on par with [sundown](https://github.com/vmg/sundown). Some -benchmarks (on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz, -measured using `time` and parsing a ~500K book, the English version of -the 1st edition of -[*Pro Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott -Chacon): - -|Implementation | Time | Factor| -|---------------|-------|--------| -| Markdown.pl | 5.162s| 286.8| -| PHP Markdown | 1.021s| 56.7| -| commonmark.js | 0.292s| 16.2| -| peg-markdown | 0.279s| 15.5| -| marked | 0.239s| 13.3| -| discount | 0.090s| 5.0| -| **cmark** | 0.020s| 1.1| -| sundown | 0.018s| 1.0| +very fast (see [benchmarks](benchmarks.md)). It is easy to use `libcmark` in python or ruby code: see `wrapper.py` and `wrapper.rb` in the repository for simple examples. diff --git a/benchmarks.md b/benchmarks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a079c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/benchmarks.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Benchmarks + +Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz. + +|Implementation | Time (sec)| Factor| +|---------------|------------|-------| +| Markdown.pl | 2921.30 | 14606 | +| PHP markdown | 20.475 | 102.4 | +| peg-markdown | 5.330 | 26.7 | +| commonmark.js | 2.730 | 13.6 | +| marked | 1.870 | 9.4 | +| discount | 1.660 | 8.3 | +| cmark | 0.290 | 1.4 | +| sundown | 0.200 | 1.0 | + +To run these benchmarks, use `make bench PROG=/path/to/program`. + +The input text is a 10MB Markdown file built by concatenating 20 copies +of the Markdown source of the first edition of [*Pro +Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott Chacon. + +`time` is used to measure execution speed. + |