[gthank]

For a lot of dynamic languages, at least, the templating engine is a surprisingly large portion of your page load times. I wish I could bring up the breakdown I saw a while back, but it's certainly non-trivial in many cases.

[akie]

I would be very interested in those breakdowns. Does someone else maybe have some info on that?

[glassx]

Ryan Tomayko wrote a post on Ruby/C/Perl Markdown parsers and did some benchmarks a while ago:

http://tomayko.com/writings/ruby-markdown-libraries-real-che...