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	216ms	2ms	-	-
comrak	583 KiB	17s	5ms		v0.32.0
jotdown	209 KiB	1s	4ms		v0.7.0
markdown	985 KiB	1s	10ms		v1.0.0-alpha.21
minimad	26 KiB	569ms	3ms		v0.13.1
pulldown-cmark	445 KiB	2s	3ms		v0.12.2

System: Linux 5.4.0-170-generic (x86_64), rustc 1.84.0 (9fc6b4312 2025-01-07) 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