From ee90975c1800f531f9a4490ac195e39b480a01c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:51:04 -0800 Subject: Clarify benchmark conditions in README.md. Closes #183. --- README.md | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b6f5c55..ce6586e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,14 +17,18 @@ developers, since `scanners.c` can be provided in a released source tarball.) The parser is very fast, on par with -[sundown](https://github.com/vmg/sundown). Some benchmarks: - -|Implementation | Time to parse a 500K book | -|---------------|---------------------------| -| Markdown.pl | 3.99s | -| discount | 0.089s | -| sundown | 0.015s | -| cmark | 0.019s | +[sundown](https://github.com/vmg/sundown). Some benchmarks (on +a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM, mesaured using `time`, and parsing a +~500K book, the English version of [*Pro +Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by +Scott Chacon and Ben Straub): + +|Implementation | Time | +|---------------|-------| +| Markdown.pl | 3.990s| +| discount | 0.089s| +| sundown | 0.015s| +| cmark | 0.019s| Usage: cmark [FILE*] Options: --help, -h Print usage information -- cgit v1.2.3