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@@ -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. |