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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks.md | 13 |
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@@ -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. |