Commercial Benchmark Campaign 2026 06 06

Commercial Benchmark Summary

Run date: 2026-06-06

Raw report:

• benchmark-output/commercial/reports/commercial_benchmark_combined_combined_commercial_20260606.md
• benchmark-output/commercial/reports/commercial_benchmark_combined_commercial_20260606.json

Scope:

• 60 total benchmark cases, all passed.
• 48 Linux cases on native WSL ext4.
• 12 Windows cases.
• Native Markdown-to-PDF path only.
• Covered CLI modes: --bench, --export, --batch, --stdin-batch, --serve.
• Covered styles: elegant, modern, tech.
• Covered margins: compact, normal, wide, margin=0.75in.
• Generated Markdown inputs ranged from about 100 KB to 100 MB.
• Extra Windows Pandoc compatibility smoke test: 100 KB ASCII export passed in 8.11 s, output 151,524 bytes.

Headline Numbers

Claim Candidate	Result	Caveat
100 MB Linux native export	7.03 s	WSL ext4, synthetic ASCII-heavy doc, output PDF 428.43 MiB
100 MB Windows native export	13.48 s	Synthetic ASCII-heavy doc, output PDF 426.96 MiB
100 MB Linux warm engine benchmark	6.48 s avg conversion	--bench warm in-process PDF generation
Peak Linux warm throughput	21.91 MiB/s	250 KB ASCII warm benchmark
Linux 100-file stdin batch	0.144 s	100 synthetic ~20 KB files, WSL ext4
Linux 10 MiB serve batch	0.686 s	5 synthetic files, warm process
Windows 20-file batch	0.610 s	20 synthetic ~100 KB files
Windows 10 MiB serve batch	1.764 s	5 synthetic files
Windows Pandoc compatibility smoke	8.11 s	100 KB ASCII export through external Pandoc/LaTeX path

Memory Notes

Case	Peak RSS
Linux 100 MB warm --bench	3,260,736 KB
Linux 100 MB --export	1,953,332 KB
Windows 100 MB --export	2,199,860 KB
Linux 10 MiB --serve batch	112,380 KB
Windows 10 MiB --serve batch	77,940 KB

Marketing-Safe Wording

• "Converts a synthetic 100 MB Markdown document to PDF in 7.03 seconds on Linux WSL ext4 in local testing."
• "Completed 60 native conversion benchmark cases across Linux and Windows with zero failures."
• "Supports single-file, folder batch, stdin batch, warm serve, and warm in-process benchmark workflows."
• "Reached up to 21.91 MiB/s warm conversion throughput on synthetic ASCII Markdown in local Linux testing."
• "Converted 100 small Markdown files through stdin batch in 0.144 seconds on native WSL ext4."

Caveats To Keep In The Copy

• These are synthetic benchmark documents, not a representative customer corpus.
• --bench measures warm PDF byte generation and should not be mixed with end-to-end file I/O timings.
• Linux batch numbers should say WSL ext4/native Linux storage; previous /mnt/e testing was much slower.
• The 100 MB synthetic input creates a very large PDF, around 427-428 MiB.
• Native mode is a fast Markdown subset, not a full Pandoc replacement.
• Pandoc mode depends on external Pandoc/LaTeX tooling and should be marketed separately from native speed numbers.