Benchmarks with TextMate's manual

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-08-28 à 5:27, Andrea Censi a écrit :


> No, there isn't room for improvement. Because of the successive

> regexps being applied over and over again, it's quite hard to make one

> little change in the syntax without screwing up something down the

> line.


That's not really true anymore with PHP Markdown. Since 1.0.1d, all  
generated HTML (or embedded HTML found) is hashed to a simple text  
token which appear as a simple word to subsequent regular  
expressions. That is, for instance, how it avoids misnesting elements  
(such as in `*this **this* this**`). So unless you have a regex that  
messes up with the content of words, you don't have to worry about  
what the other parsing phases have done or will do, you just do what  
you need to do to the text and wrap the finished result behind a hash.


Michel Fortin
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http://www.michelf.com/