Run results for: Markdown Performance Comparison 4

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Remarkable

82K/s

CommonMark

76K/s

Micromarkdown

73K/s

Markdown-it

57K/s

Snarkdown

55K/s

Marked

31K/s

Showdown.js

11K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Remarkable	82,349 Ops/sec
CommonMark	76,191 Ops/sec
Micromarkdown	72,905 Ops/sec
Markdown-it	57,394 Ops/sec
Snarkdown	54,823 Ops/sec
Marked	31,208 Ops/sec
Showdown.js	10,789 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/showdown@1.9.1/dist/showdown.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/marked@1.1.0/marked.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/commonmark@0.29.1/dist/commonmark.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/markdown-it@11.0.0/dist/markdown-it.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/remarkable@2.0.1/dist/remarkable.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/micromarkdown@0.3.0/dist/micromarkdown.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/snarkdown@1.2.2/dist/snarkdown.umd.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var conv = {
  showdown: new showdown.Converter(),
  marked: marked,
  cm: new commonmark.HtmlRenderer(),
  mdit: markdownit({ html: true }),
  remarkable: new remarkable.Remarkable(),
  micromarkdown: window.micromarkdown,
  snarkdown: window.snarkdown
};

var pars = {
  cm: new commonmark.Parser()
};

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. With it we are *able to talk* about the things we love.\n\nOnline publishing platform have a problem though - they [require](https://1993.uk) certain software to be installed on web servers in order to work. This often means running your own server or paying someone else who will setup the [required](https://1993.uk) parts for you.\n\nAfter you setup the system, constant updates are required to make sure that any bugs in the software you are running are patched [immediately](https://1993.uk) to prevent your *site* from being hacked. This __often means__ having a recent backup of your data",
          ""].join("\n");

Tests:

Showdown.js
conv.showdown.makeHtml(md);
Marked
conv.marked(md);
CommonMark
conv.cm.render(pars.cm.parse(md));
Markdown-it
conv.mdit.render(md);
Remarkable
conv.remarkable.render(md);
Micromarkdown
conv.micromarkdown.parse(md);
Snarkdown
conv.snarkdown(md);