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Speed comparison to other markup language implementations

One quick and dirty option is to use generate-paragraphs which generates output compatible for most markup languages:
./generate-paragraphs 100000 > tmp.bigb
On Ubuntu 20.04 Lenovo ThinkPad P51 for example:
  • OurBigBook 54ba49736323264a5c66aa5d419f8232b4ecf8d0 + 1, Node.js v12.18.1
    time ./ourbigbook tmp.bigb
    outputs:
    real    0m5.104s
user    0m6.323s
sys     0m0.674s
  • Asciidoctor 2.0.10, Ruby 2.6.0p0:
    cp tmp.bigb tmp.adoc
time asciidoctor tmp.adoc
    outputs:
    real    0m1.911s
user    0m1.850s
sys     0m0.060s
  • cmark 0.29.0:
    cp tmp.bigb tmp.md
time cmark tmp.md > tmp.md.html
    outputs:
    real    0m0.091s
user    0m0.070s
sys     0m0.021s
    Holy cow, it is 200x faster than Asciidoctor!
  • markdown-it at 5789a3fe9693aa3ef6aa882b0f57e0ea61efafc0 to get an idea of a JavaScript markdown implementation:
    time markdown-it tmp.md > tmp.md.html
    outputs:
    real    0m0.361s
user    0m0.590s
sys     0m0.060s
  • cat just to find the absolute floor:
    time cat tmp.bigb > tmp.tmp
    outputs:
    real    0m0.006s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.000s

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