Is there a faster alternative to kramdown that still uses PHP Markdown syntax?

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I just moved my site to Octopress, which comes preconfigured with the rdiscount Markdown parser, but my archives have a lot of posts that were written with the PHP Markdown Extra syntax. The main syntax I need is for footnotes:

This is my sentence.[^1]

[^1]: This is my footnote.

Kramdown does it, but it's slowing down site generation. As far as I understand rediscount is by far the fastest parser, but it doesn't handle this footnote syntax. Are there others that are faster and have this syntax built in? Thanks so much.

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Octopress uses Jekyll, which has 3 markdown parameters:

  • rdiscount
  • kramdown
  • maruku

It seems that you have tried the first two, but not the third. I've given a look at its specs and it seems to support footnotes. I don't know whether it's faster or slower than rdiscount, though.

Best option is to try it. If it works, then that's your option. If not, then there is no other alternative.