PHP 5 port of Markdown, plugin-based

[Paul M Jones]

(Sorry to flood this list on this topic.)

Earlier, I reported that Solar_Markdown runs at about 50% the speed  
of PHP-Markdown:

* benchSolarMarkdown ran 62075 iterations in 2 minutes (517/second)

* benchPhpMarkdown ran 125904 iterations in 2 minutes (1049/second)


It turns out that I had "tidy" turned on for Solar_Markdown in those  
runs.  Without tidy (which is a more-fair comparison) Solar_Markdown  
is still slower, but comes up to about 70% of the speed of PHP-Markdown:

* benchSolarMarkdown ran 88505 iterations in 2 minutes (737/second)

* benchPhpMarkdown ran 125207 iterations in 2 minutes (1043/second)


So it's quite a bit faster than I thought earlier, though still not  
quite as fast as Michel's work.



-- pmj