Case Study: Optimizing CommonMark Markdown Parser with Blackfire.io — SitePointUnfortunately, because of the tightly-coupled design and overall architecture, it’s difficult (if not impossible) to extend these parsers with custom logic. For the League’s CommonMark parser, we chose to prioritize extensibility over performance. This led to a decoupled object-oriented design which users can easily customize. This has enabled others to build their own integrations, extensions, an
