Run results for: Markdown Performance Comparison June 5th 2023

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/117.0.2045.41

Browser: Chrome 117

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Marked	17276.2 Ops/sec
CommonMark	118854.5 Ops/sec
Markdown-it	94011.8 Ops/sec
Remarkable	112650.0 Ops/sec
Micromarkdown	100182.0 Ops/sec
Snarkdown	101468.7 Ops/sec
markdown-wasm	184848.5 Ops/sec
markdown-wasm-alt	181555.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/marked@5.0.4/marked.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/commonmark@0.30.0/dist/commonmark.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/markdown-it@13.0.1/dist/markdown-it.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/remarkable@2.0.1/dist/remarkable.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/micromarkdown@0.3.4-a/dist/micromarkdown.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/snarkdown@2.0.0/dist/snarkdown.umd.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://lukeuser.cacus.feralhosting.com/markdown.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://lukeuser.cacus.feralhosting.com/markdown.altw.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var conv = {
    marked: marked,
    cm: new commonmark.HtmlRenderer(),
    mdit: markdownit({
        html: true
    }),
    remarkable: new remarkable.Remarkable(),
    micromarkdown: window.micromarkdown,
    snarkdown: window.snarkdown,
    markdown: window.markdown,
    markdownaltw: window.markdownaltw
};

var pars = {
    cm: new commonmark.Parser()
};

function md() {
return "# The Static, Static Blog Generator\n\n### May 17th, 2014\n\nWe all like publishing our thoughts online - but why is it such a bother to run a CMS?\n\nManaging databases, updating software, and keeping track of our content often cuts into the most important activity: *expressing ourselves*.\n\nThe web makes it really easy to share our thoughts with millions of individuals from around the world."}

Tests:

Marked
conv.marked.parse(md());
CommonMark
conv.cm.render(pars.cm.parse(md()));
Markdown-it
conv.mdit.render(md());
Remarkable
conv.remarkable.render(md());
Micromarkdown
conv.micromarkdown.parse(md(),true);
Snarkdown
conv.snarkdown(md());
markdown-wasm
try {markdown.parse(md());} catch {}
markdown-wasm-alt
try {markdownaltw.parse(md());} catch {}

Run results for: Markdown Performance Comparison June 5th 2023

A performance comparison of leading Javascript Markdown implementations.

Marked

CommonMark

Markdown-it

Remarkable

Micromarkdown

Snarkdown

markdown-wasm

markdown-wasm-alt