looking for textile reference in textile source for benchmarking

[Stephen Bannasch]

At 9:41 PM -0400 4/13/09, Jason Garber wrote:
>Interesting.  Care to offer any interpretation?

BlueCloth is much slower and the time for processing increases 
quadratically as the input document get's larger. I haven't looked at 
why.

RedCloth is about 15x faster and scales linearly -- again I'm not 
sure why but I like that behavior ;-)

When most of the processing time is spent in Ruby regex's (bluecloth) 
JRuby is about twice as fast.

Running RedCloth in JRuby however is only about 10% faster. From 
previous benchmarking of Hpricot I suspect that the ragel code in 
Java is just a bit slower than the C and the speedup is due to other 
areas where JRuby is faster.

The context for the benchmarking is a blog post here:

 
http://eigenclass.org/R2/writings/fast-extensible-simplified-markdown-in-ocaml

Mauricio's implementation of a simple markdown processor in OCaml 
appears to be about 20x faster than RedCloth.

I'd like to know a good way of measuring "real" memory use when 
running a benchmark like this in Ruby especially one that involves a 
native library. Mauricio's reports very low memory usage from his 
OCaml implementation.

>On Apr 11, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>
>>Thanks Jason,
>>
>>Here are some interesting results testing in MRI 1.8.6 and JRuby.
>>
>>Testing BlueCloth:
>>
>>http://img.skitch.com/20090411-fp1sxu3fu7dm4296kqrmskgaqt.png
>>
>>Testing RedCloth:
>>
>>http://img.skitch.com/20090411-5is73f52ftck2h3pyiiyjiu2m.png
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