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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2015-06-17 09:13:50 -0700
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Advantages of this library:
- **Portable.** The library and program are written in standard
- C99 and have no external dependencies. It has been tested with
+ C99 and have no external dependencies. They have been tested with
MSVC, gcc, tcc, and clang.
-- **Fast.** Performance is very good, on par with the fastest
- Markdown processors: see the [benchmarks].
+- **Fast.** cmark can render a Markdown version of *War and Peace* in
+ the blink of an eye (127 milliseconds on a ten year old laptop,
+ vs. 100-400 milliseconds for an eye blink). In our [benchmarks],
+ cmark is 10,000 times faster than the original `Markdown.pl`, and
+ on par with the very fastest available Markdown processors.
- **Accurate.** The library passes all CommonMark conformance tests.