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cmc <hello@cleberg.net> · 2026-08-11 22:56 UTC

Record a speed comparison against weblorg

Both generators, one real site, same machine, same moment: 178 org files through
`emacs --script publish.el` and through `orgo build`. Median of three runs each,
and the variance was nil — weblorg landed on 50.03, 50.11, 50.10.

50.1s against 0.21s cold, 0.13s with nothing changed.

The table says what it is measuring, because a benchmark that does not is an
advertisement. weblorg's number includes Emacs starting and loading its packages
— unavoidable per publish, so it belongs in the figure. orgo emits 13 pages
weblorg does not. And the two outputs are not byte-identical.

Layout: unified · split

README.md +19

		@@ -80,6 +80,25 @@ Each of these is a few lines of config, and each has a page in the guide:
80	80	Rebuilds only touch the pages that actually changed, so saving a post on a site with
81	81	hundreds of them stays instant.
82	82
	83	## Speed
	84
	85	Publishing one real site — 178 org files, ~180 pages — with the generator it uses today
	86	and with orgo. Median of three runs each, same machine, same moment:
	87
	88	\| \| Time \| \|
	89	\|---\|---\|---\|
	90	\| weblorg (`emacs --script publish.el`) \| 50.1s \| \|
	91	\| orgo, cold build \| 0.21s \| 239× faster \|
	92	\| orgo, nothing changed since last build \| 0.13s \| 385× faster \|
	93
	94	Read that with three things in mind. The weblorg figure includes Emacs starting up and
	95	loading its packages, which you pay on every publish and cannot avoid. orgo emits 13 pages
	96	weblorg does not (one per tag), so it is doing slightly more work. And the two do not
	97	produce byte-identical output — the differences are deliberate and listed under
	98	[Org support](https://krazywarez.github.io/orgo/guide/05-org-support.html).
	99
	100	Apple M2 Pro, 12 cores, macOS 26.6, Emacs 30.2, orgo built with `--release`.
	101
83	102	## The documentation
84	103
85	104	<https://krazywarez.github.io/orgo/>

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