[seer]

As with most tech, if there such a leap in speed (about 10 times) then a lot of other applications become possible. You could remove a layer of caching because its not needed anymore, thus reducing your app complexity. But apart from that, imagine how many places use markdown? If people all move to a 10 times faster implementation, that an incredible reduction in wasted cpu cycles.

[nkozyra]

My point was not that we shouldn't work to produce even small efficiencies (which, yes, cascade into larger aggregate ones).

It was more wondering whether speed in markdown parsing is such a concern that this would merit a marquee 'selling' point.