summary Benchmarks comparing Pandoc to Markdown.pl.

This benchmark uses the sources for Allan Odgaard's TextMate manual, available at http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/source.tbz. These sources were concatenated into a single file, textmate_manual.txt, 178K in size. The test machine is an Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz, 1G RAM, running Ubuntu linux. Pandoc was compiled with the '-O0' optimization flag.

Markdown.pl

``` $ Markdown.pl --version

This is Markdown, version 1.0.2b8. Copyright 2004 John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

$ time Markdown.pl textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m15.470s user 0m15.457s sys 0m0.012s

$ markdown --version

This is Markdown, version 1.0.1. Copyright 2004 John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

$ time markdown textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m10.300s user 0m10.249s sys 0m0.020s ```

pandoc r983

$ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null real 0m0.908s user 0m0.888s sys 0m0.016s

pandoc r979

``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m1.089s user 0m1.064s sys 0m0.012s ```

pandoc r969

Compiled with -O0: ``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m1.462s user 0m1.440s sys 0m0.020s ```

Compiled with -O2 (much slower compile, much bigger executable): ``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m1.293s user 0m1.248s sys 0m0.020s ```

pandoc r940

``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m2.010s user 0m1.988s sys 0m0.016s ```

pandoc r836

``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m4.005s user 0m3.984s sys 0m0.016s $ ```

pandoc 0.42

``` $ time ./pandoc --strict textmate_manual.txt >/dev/null

real 0m5.135s user 0m5.124s sys 0m0.008s ```