Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] GSoC progress

[Artem Y. <ne...@gm...>]

Yuri Takhteyev wrote:
>> markdown-syntax:2.120000:5246976.000000
>> markdown-syntax:2.500000:2031616.000000
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> So, that's, 26% reduction in time, right?  Not bad.  But are we now
> using twice as much memory?  Any reason for this?
>
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I'll try to investigate this. Maybe it's because we are putting all 
InlinePatterns nodes to dict. And I think
two-step approach eats part of memory too.

>> I think we also could speed up markdown by switching to cElementTree
>> instead of NanoDOM.
>>     
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> Which version of python would this require?
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cElementTree and ElementTree was includeded in Python std lib since 
Python 2.5, but cElementTree itself can be used with Python 1.5.2 and later.