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Benchmarks

Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz.

|Implementation | Time (sec)| Factor | |---------------|-----------:|--------:| | Markdown.pl | 2921.30 | 14606.5 | | PHP markdown | 20.475 | 102.4 | | peg-markdown | 5.330 | 26.7 | | commonmark.js | 2.730 | 13.6 | | marked | 1.870 | 9.4 | | remarkable.js | 1.790 | 8.9 | | discount | 1.660 | 8.3 | | cmark | 0.320 | 1.6 | | 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 by Scott Chacon.

time is used to measure execution speed.