---
title: "Performance Benchmarks"
description: "panache performance metrics on real-world documents"
---
## Benchmark Suite
Benchmarks are run on real Quarto documents to measure realistic performance.
### Methodology
- Measures three phases: full pipeline (parse+format), parse only, format only
- Reports average time per iteration and throughput (KB/s)
- Source of truth: `benches/benchmark_results.json` (schema version 1)
## Results
### Small (synthetic)
Document: `small.qmd` (756 bytes, 48 lines)\
Iterations: 1000
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | -----------: |
| Full pipeline | 0.09 ms |
| Parse only | 0.05 ms |
| Format only | 0.04 ms |
| Throughput | 7798.64 KB/s |
### Medium (Quarto tutorial)
Document: `medium_quarto.qmd` (8893 bytes, 146 lines)\
Iterations: 100
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | ------------: |
| Full pipeline | 0.62 ms |
| Parse only | 0.25 ms |
| Format only | 0.29 ms |
| Throughput | 13941.04 KB/s |
### Tables (table-heavy)
Document: `tables.qmd` (18833 bytes, 636 lines)\
Iterations: 50
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | ------------: |
| Full pipeline | 1.43 ms |
| Parse only | 0.70 ms |
| Format only | 0.60 ms |
| Throughput | 12893.36 KB/s |
### Math (computation-heavy)
Document: `math.qmd` (28562 bytes, 664 lines)\
Iterations: 50
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | ------------: |
| Full pipeline | 1.46 ms |
| Parse only | 0.60 ms |
| Format only | 0.70 ms |
| Throughput | 19156.73 KB/s |
### Large (comprehensive)
Document: `large_authoring.qmd` (29858 bytes, 592 lines)\
Iterations: 20
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | ------------: |
| Full pipeline | 1.30 ms |
| Parse only | 0.65 ms |
| Format only | 0.56 ms |
| Throughput | 22405.26 KB/s |
### Pandoc MANUAL (stress)
Document: `pandoc_manual.md` (299536 bytes, 8036 lines)\
Iterations: 3
| Metric | Avg time |
| ------------- | ------------: |
| Full pipeline | 20.05 ms |
| Parse only | 9.99 ms |
| Format only | 10.23 ms |
| Throughput | 14589.79 KB/s |
## Reproducing
```bash
# Download test documents
cd benches/documents && ./download.sh
# Generate JSON + docs page
./benches/generate_docs.sh
```