Parse.md

A Markdown parser library for C++.

Warning

This library only supports a subset of Markdown as of now.

Features

• Parse.md is small, lightweight and fast.

• Parse.md abides by the CommonMark Spec.

• Parse.md's AST allows to write small renderers or format converters.

Benchmark

Benchmark, as run on 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12500H (4.5 GHz max) runnin Arch Linux (kernel 6.16.4), compiled with g++ (15.2.1) after compiler optimizations (Release build)

Throughput: 22 MB/s

Benchmark	Time	CPU	Iterations
ParseMd Empty String	0.036 us	0.036 us	19429443
ParseMd Simple String	3.53 us	3.53 us	198560
ParseMd 100KB	4222 us	4214 us	166
ParseMd 1MB	44227 us	44136 us	16

Demo

For an elaborate demo, see demo.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include "parsemd/parser.h"

using namespace markdown;

int main() {
  Parser p;
  p.Parse("### This is **strong** and *italic*");
  Node root = p.GetRoot();
  std::cout << Parser::DumpTree(root);
}