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diff --git a/textproc/ruby-maruku/DESCR b/textproc/ruby-maruku/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8ab2e87d204 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/ruby-maruku/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Maruku is a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby. + +The other Ruby implementation of Markdown is Bluecloth. Maruku is +much different in philosophy from Bluecloth; the biggest difference is +that parsing is separated from rendering. In Maruku, an in-memory +representation of the Markdown document is created. Instead, +Bluecloth mantains the document in memory as a String at all times, +and does a series of gsub to transform to HTML. + +Maruku is usually faster than Bluecloth. Bluecloth is faster for very +small documents. Bluecloth sometimes chokes on very big documents (it +is reported that the blame should be on Ruby's regexp implementation). |