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diff --git a/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn b/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn index 8d7f0e3cb..5d5647e9b 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,28 @@ -I'm not sure where the bottleneck is for running ikiwiki over a site like my blog [Natalian](http://source.natalian-org.branchable.com/?p=source.git;), though I like to think the markdown processing could be speeded up by the support of the C implementation of Markdown called [Sundown](https://github.com/tanoku/sundown). +I'm not sure where the bottleneck is for running ikiwiki over a site like +my blog +[Natalian](http://source.natalian-org.branchable.com/?p=source.git;), +though I like to think the markdown processing could be speeded up by the +support of the C implementation of Markdown called +[Sundown](https://github.com/tanoku/sundown). ->> Sundown doesn't appear to have Perl bindings, so the cost of calling a separate process could wipe out some or all of the speed gain. It might be worth looking into Text::Upskirt instead, which uses the Upskirt library which Sundown appears to be derived from. ->> -- [[KathrynAndersen]] +>> Sundown doesn't appear to have Perl bindings, so the cost of calling a +>> separate process could wipe out some or all of the speed gain. It might +>> be worth looking into Text::Upskirt instead, which uses the Upskirt +>> library which Sundown appears to be derived from. -- [[KathrynAndersen]] + +>>> It would be fairly easy to write a perl binding for sundown. For that +>>> matter, Text::Upskirt could be adapted to it. I am waiting for any of +>>> upskirt, sundown and perl bindings to get into Debian, then I will +>>> see about making ikiwiki use them. +>>> +>>> For now, I have added discount support to ikiwiki. This does speed up +>>> markdown rendering by up to 40x, although when building a site ikiwiki +>>> in practice does other work, so the gains are less impressive. Building +>>> the ikiwiki doc wiki went from 62 to 45 seconds. The lack of a Debian +>>> package of Text::Markdown::Discount means this is not used by default +>>> yet. +>>> +>>> (Upskirt, discount... Who comes up with these names? Discount also +>>> features a "NOPANTS" option.) --[[Joey]] [[wishlist]] |