VMD Benchmark

VMD vs Markdown vs browser-ready HTML.

Gallery Playground Benchmark source
Format Bytes Lines Tokens Overhead Native roles Hints Visuals Modes Native Validation
VMD 1527 72 382 279 (18.3%) 10 0 3 3 no yes (0 errors, 0 warnings)
Markdown 1336 52 334 192 (14.4%) 0 9 3 1 no no
HTML 6749 98 1688 4793 (71%) 0 6 4 3 yes no

Compared with Markdown, VMD is 14.3% larger in this case, but adds 10 native semantic roles, 2 extra render modes, and validator support.

Compared with the browser-ready HTML fixture, VMD is 77.4% smaller while preserving the same number of render modes through the renderer.

HTML remains the native browser substrate. VMD is the higher-level source for layered visual documents with explicit fidelity.