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