Rust Markdown Parsing Benchmarks

This repo tries to assess Rust markdown parsing performance.

We currently compare:

• comrak
• minimad
• pulldown-cmark
• markdown

Formerly, we compared:

• mini_markdown: author is unwilling to follow cargo's variant of semver

Suggestions:

• Generally, pulldown-cmark

Results

Name	Overhead (release)	Build (debug)	Parse (release)	Downloads	Version
null	0 KiB	222ms	4ms	-	-
comrak	549 KiB	17s	3ms		v0.21.0
markdown	931 KiB	1s	10ms		v1.0.0-alpha.16
minimad	26 KiB	603ms	4ms		v0.13.0
pulldown-cmark	708 KiB	1s	3ms		v0.9.6

System: Linux 5.4.0-124-generic (x86_64), rustc 1.75.0 (82e1608df 2023-12-21) w/ -j 8

Notes:

• Overhead will be lower if your application shares dependencies with your argument parsing library.

Running the Benchmarks

$ ./bench.py
$ ./format.py