* Jacob Rus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-23 02:20]: > Perl (or whatever language you like) is perfectly capable of a > markdown at least 2 orders of magnitude faster than the current > one for huge documents.
What basis are you using for that estimation? (I ask because the regex engine in Perl is actually somewhat slow; this is because it expends some bookkeeping effort to prevent combinatorial explosion in backtracking in badly written patterns, which would cause exponential runtime increase with increasing input length. Most comparable regex engines are noticably faster, but unforgiving of badly written match patterns.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
