That measurement would probably be more useful if stacked against same in Java / Python / Ruby / etc. Writing the parser itself in Erlang seems expensive; pass

That measurement would probably be more useful if stacked against same in Java / Python / Ruby / etc. Writing the parser itself in Erlang seems expensive; passing text through discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/ http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) in an otherwise Erlang system seems like a good neutral measure. (and then 100k threads doing same concurrently)