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From: Yuri T. <yu...@si...> - 2007-03-19 02:49:57
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I finally got around to merging a bunch of patches and fixing all of the open tickets except for one, so this makes the 1.6b release candidate. Instead of posting it on the website immediately, I decided to check it into SVN, in case someone finds any bugs. I am also making one small change that the first thing towards what I see as the new focus for 1.7: Right now the "standard" way to use markdown is to call markdown.markdown(text) which really just makes a call to markdown.Markdown(text).toString(). I am changing the latter to markdown.Markdown().convert(text) to make it clear that you can reuse the same instance of markdown to convert multiple text strings. I am guessing that if used properly with something like Django this can save CPU and perhaps memory. More generally, I want to think more about performance rather than features for 1.7., especially in case of web use with mod_python or FastCGI where a single instance can be used over time. If anyone has time to spare and wants to help out with such performance tuning, please let me know. - yuri -- Yuri Takhteyev UC Berkeley School of Information http://www.freewisdom.org/ |