[ANNOUNCE] cmarkdown-0.3

Jacob Rus jacobolus at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 20:06:04 EST 2007


John Gruber wrote:

> On Dec 14, Jacob Rus wrote:

>> Just out of curiosity, what's the point?

>

> Performance, I would guess.


Okay, but improved algorithm is the way to improved performance, not
changing languages. Perl (or whatever language you like) is perfectly
capable of a markdown at least 2 orders of magnitude faster than the
current one for huge documents.

-Jacob



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