[ANN] Markdown.pl 1.0.2b7

[John Gruber]

Allan Odgaard <29mtuz102 at sneakemail.com> wrote on 8/30/06 at 8:01 AM:


> >     +   Fixed bad performance bug in new `Text::Balanced`-based

> >         block-level parser.

> 

> I now get 38 seconds for converting the TextMate manual (173 KB) -- I  

> believe that is actually slower than previously.


Yeah, that fix has nothing to do with your performance gripe --
that was a different, much, much worse performance bug.

Long-term I'm pretty sure I need a custom parser for identifying
HTML blocks. This version is probably about as good as it'll get
with Text::Balanced.

-J.G.