My personal build of CMark ✏️
Added benchmark for hoedown.
Note that hoedown doesn't show the 32/64 bit difference that sundown does -- so it was probably a bug in sundown. Removed the comments from benchmarks.md about this.
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
| Status | File Name | N° Changes | Insertions | Deletions |
| Modified | README.md | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Modified | benchmarks.md | 13 | 3 | 10 |
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -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 @@ -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.