->> Sundown doesn't appear to have Perl bindings, so the cost of calling a separate process could wipe out some or all of the speed gain. It might be worth looking into Text::Upskirt instead, which uses the Upskirt library which Sundown appears to be derived from.
->> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+>> Sundown doesn't appear to have Perl bindings, so the cost of calling a
+>> separate process could wipe out some or all of the speed gain. It might
+>> be worth looking into Text::Upskirt instead, which uses the Upskirt
+>> library which Sundown appears to be derived from. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+>>> It would be fairly easy to write a perl binding for sundown. For that
+>>> matter, Text::Upskirt could be adapted to it. I am waiting for any of
+>>> upskirt, sundown and perl bindings to get into Debian, then I will
+>>> see about making ikiwiki use them.
+>>>
+>>> For now, I have added discount support to ikiwiki. This does speed up
+>>> markdown rendering by up to 40x, although when building a site ikiwiki
+>>> in practice does other work, so the gains are less impressive. Building
+>>> the ikiwiki doc wiki went from 62 to 45 seconds. The lack of a Debian
+>>> package of Text::Markdown::Discount means this is not used by default
+>>> yet.
+>>>
+>>> (Upskirt, discount... Who comes up with these names? Discount also
+>>> features a "NOPANTS" option.) --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> Thanks for doing this; it's given a well-needed speedup to my huge site.
+>>>>
+>>>> (At least "Discount" is related to "Mark Down" but I don't fathom "Upskirt" either.)
+>>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]