From 6f8398fbb906ef194f6ce9b9981b80a7b792622b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/" Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:30:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] consider alternatives? --- doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn b/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn index 590b07592..5917290c6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Improve_markdown_speed.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ 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::Markdown::Discount instead, which appears to be a perl module which uses the C library "Discount". Unfortunately, when I tried, I couldn't install it on my system, so the point may be moot. +>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]] + [[wishlist]] -- 2.26.2