Maruku: a better Markdown interpreter for Ruby.

[John Gruber]

Andrea Censi <andrea at censi.org> wrote on 12/28/06 at 11:46 PM:


> I was surprised to see it's already comparable in speed. :-D

> Probably the magic is in the line-oriented parser: I'm using regexp

> only for span-level elements.


Yeah, I'll bet yours makes fewer copies of the entire source
input. With Ruby in particular, that's probably fairly expensive.
Good to see that the benchmark looks good.

-J.G.