commonmark-d: A fast CommonMark and Github Flavoured Markdown parser, translation of MD4C

[Guillaume Piolat]

Hello,

commonmark-d is a D translation of MD4C, a fast SAX-like Markdown 
parser.
MD4C achieves remarkable parsing speed through the lack of AST 
and careful memory usage.

The route of translation was choosen because parsing Markdown is 
much more involved that first thought. The D translation largely 
preserve the speed benefits of M4DC.


Usage:

     // Parse CommonMark, generate HTML
     import commonmarkd;
     string html = convertMarkdownToHTML(markdown);

Key Performance Numbers:
     - commonmark-d compiles 3x faster than dmarkdown and 40x 
faster than hunt-markdown.
     - commonmark-d parses Markdown 2x faster than dmarkdown and 
15x faster than hunt-markdown (see GitHub for benchmark details)

I haven't measured memory usage of either compile time or run 
time, but I feel like it's also better.

Available now on DUB: http://code.dlang.org/packages/commonmark-d
GitHub page: https://github.com/p0nce/commonmark-d