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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2015-06-17 09:13:50 -0700 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2015-06-17 09:13:50 -0700 |
| commit | 1632a5a121c531c1b4fafb1c2058e964174c95ad (patch) | |
| tree | 874f8a9be854f0eab33e11bd3e7ec7c4c4f5306d | |
| parent | 2fa54428e2910d4f8d96e6a548db650d50613535 (diff) | |
Small changes to README and benchmark files.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks.md | 11 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ documents. 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. diff --git a/benchmarks.md b/benchmarks.md index 5f6bed1..df3fc93 100644 --- a/benchmarks.md +++ b/benchmarks.md @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ # Benchmarks -Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz. +Here are some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel +Core 2 Duo at 2GHz. The input text is a 11MB Markdown file built by +concatenating the Markdown sources of all the localizations of the +first edition of +[*Pro Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott +Chacon. |Implementation | Time (sec)| |-------------------|-----------:| @@ -19,10 +24,6 @@ Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz. To run these benchmarks, use `make bench PROG=/path/to/program`. -The input text is a 11MB Markdown file built by concatenating the -Markdown sources of all the localizations 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. The reported time is the *difference* between the time to run the program with the benchmark input and the time to run it with no input. |