Benchmarks

Benchmarks

RayoMD benchmark claims are dated, scoped, and reproducible. Hardware, storage, fonts, compiler, tool versions, and document shape all affect results.

Published reports

• Markdown-to-PDF Speed Comparison 2026-07-11 — RayoMD, Pandoc/XeLaTeX, and Node md-to-pdf on three Windows workloads
• RayoMD vs Pandoc 2026-06-18 — focused local Windows export comparison
• Commercial Benchmark Campaign 2026-06-06 — large synthetic runs, batching, serve mode, and memory notes
• Optimization Progress — accepted and rejected native-path experiments
• Optimization Research Notes — research sources and follow-up candidates

Reading the numbers

• Warm --bench timing measures repeated in-process PDF byte generation.
• Export and batch timing includes process and file I/O.
• Synthetic inputs are not a representative customer corpus.
• Linux/WSL storage matters: native ext4 can be dramatically faster than /mnt/* for many small files.
• Native RayoMD implements a narrower feature set than Pandoc and browser-based renderers. Speed comparisons are not claims of feature or visual equivalence.

Use Performance Watcher for current before/after measurements. Compact version records remain in docs/benchmarks/versions because scripts consume them and they belong to source history.