Benchmark: Markdown Performance Comparison Dec-11-2024-19:00

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/marked@15.0.3/marked.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/commonmark@0.31.2/dist/commonmark.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/markdown-it@14.1.0/dist/markdown-it.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/remarkable@2.0.1/dist/remarkable.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var pars = {
  cm: new commonmark.Parser(), // cm.parse("")
  marked: marked, // marked.lexer("")
  mdit: markdownit(), // mdit.parse("", {})
  remarkable: new remarkable.Remarkable() // remarkable.parse("")
};

var md = "# The Static, Static Blog Generator\n\n### May 17th, 2014\n\nWe all like publishing our thoughts online - but why is it such a bother to run a CMS?\n\nManaging databases, `updating` software, and keeping track of our *content* often cuts into the most important activity: *expressing ourselves*.\n\nThe web makes it really __easy to share__ our thoughts with millions of __individuals__ from around the world.";

Tests:

Marked
pars.marked.lexer(md);
Markdown-it
pars.mdit.parse(md, {});
Remarkable
pars.remarkable.parse(md, {});
CommonMark
pars.cm.parse(md);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Marked
Markdown-it
Remarkable
CommonMark

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/130.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 130 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Marked	56719.3 Ops/sec
Markdown-it	106305.8 Ops/sec
Remarkable	182187.7 Ops/sec
CommonMark	153636.9 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

Markdown Performance Comparison Dec-11-2024-19:00 (version: 2)

A performance comparison of leading Javascript Markdown implementations.

Comparing performance of: Marked vs Markdown-it vs Remarkable vs CommonMark

Created: one year ago by: Registered User

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Marked

Markdown-it

Remarkable

CommonMark

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A