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diff --git a/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn b/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn index 2d67aabac..b8b4f06e6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,42 @@ determine which Perl module to use. > > I would not recommend using Gruber's perl markdown. It is old, terminally > buggy, and unmaintained. --[[Joey]] [[!tag reviewed]] + +---- + +I wasn't trying to make an external markdown the default, I was trying +to make the currently hardcoded `/usr/bin/markdown` configurable. It +should only use an external process if `markdown_path` is set, which +it is not by default. Consider the following tests from clean checkouts: + +Current ikiwiki trunk: + + $ PERL5LIB="." time ikiwiki --setup docwiki.setup + ... + 38.73user 0.62system 1:20.90elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 103040maxresident)k + 0inputs+6472outputs (0major+19448minor)pagefaults 0swaps + +My mdwn branch: + + $ PERL5LIB="." time ikiwiki --setup docwiki.setup + ... + Markdown: Text::Markdown::markdown() + ... + 39.17user 0.73system 1:21.77elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 103072maxresident)k + 0inputs+6472outputs (0major+19537minor)pagefaults 0swaps + +My mdwn branch with `markdown_path => "/usr/bin/markdown"` added in +`docwiki.setup` (on my system, `/usr/bin/markdown` is a command-line +wrapper for `Text::Markdown::markdown`). + + $ PERL5LIB="." time ikiwiki --setup docwiki.setup + ... + Markdown: /usr/bin/markdown + ... + 175.35user 18.99system 6:38.19elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 92320maxresident)k + 0inputs+17608outputs (0major+2189080minor)pagefaults 0swaps + +So my patch doesn't make ikiwiki slow unless the user explicitly +requests an extenral markdown, which they would presumably only do to +work around bugs in their system's Perl implementation. + -- [[wtk]] |