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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 |
+| 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.
+