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-rw-r--r--benchmarks.md13
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 465efe0..ff0fa3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Advantages of this library:
C99 and have no external dependencies. It has been tested with
MSVC, gcc, tcc, and clang.
-- **Fast.** Performance is on par with the fastest existing
- Markdown parser, [sundown]: see the [benchmarks].
+- **Fast.** Performance is very good, on par with the fastest
+ Markdown processors: see the [benchmarks].
- **Accurate.** The library passes all CommonMark conformance tests.
diff --git a/benchmarks.md b/benchmarks.md
index 848c54a..e905119 100644
--- a/benchmarks.md
+++ b/benchmarks.md
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz.
| marked | 1.94 |
| **commonmark.js** | 1.93 |
| discount | 1.86 |
-| sundown | 0.33 |
-| **cmark** | 0.33 |
-
+| **cmark** | 0.35 |
+| sundown | 0.34 |
+| hoedown | 0.21 |
To run these benchmarks, use `make bench PROG=/path/to/program`.
@@ -31,10 +31,3 @@ with the benchmark input and the time to run it with no input.
not penalized by startup time.) A median of ten runs is taken. The
process is reniced to a high priority so that the system doesn't
interrupt runs.
-
-Note that these benchmarks were done on a 32-bit machine. On a 64-bit
-machines, sundown is significantly faster than cmark (0.146s vs 0.237s
-on Intel i5/OSX with Clang, 0.130s vs 0.191s on a 64-bit Debian VPS
-with GCC). I do not know why the performance difference shows up on
-the 64-bit architecture and not the 32-bit, but that is something that
-might be investigated.