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Maruku is a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby.
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The other Ruby implementation of Markdown is Bluecloth. Maruku is
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much different in philosophy from Bluecloth; the biggest difference is
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that parsing is separated from rendering. In Maruku, an in-memory
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representation of the Markdown document is created. Instead,
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Bluecloth mantains the document in memory as a String at all times,
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and does a series of gsub to transform to HTML.
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Maruku is usually faster than Bluecloth. Bluecloth is faster for very
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small documents. Bluecloth sometimes chokes on very big documents (it
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is reported that the blame should be on Ruby's regexp implementation).
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