Still looking for easy LML choices ( + )
txt2tags is much simpler in structure while still being complete enough for my needs. Also, I don't have to provide a dummy template to get just an (X)HTML fragment out of it. Best of all, its only dependency is python.
But it has 2 drawbacks: I can't specify image attributes like dimensions, which means the page could shift while loading; & it depends on python 2, not python 3.
txt2tags: https://txt2tags.org/
docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
Still looking for easy LML choices ( ~+ )
... Is some of the delay from python 3 itself?
Consecutive runs on the same source file with rst2html from py27-docutils:
0.41 real 0.36 user 0.03 sys
0.40 real 0.27 user 0.12 sys
0.39 real 0.33 user 0.06 sys
0.40 real 0.29 user 0.10 sys
0.40 real 0.31 user 0.08 sys