From 30d3f30235bd9504b7f4f8a65bdfce21aa253a69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:35:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 01/11] feat(bench): implement markkit-bench harness with
 stored results

Measures per-case latency, ops/s, throughput and heap allocations
(count, bytes, peak) plus process peak RSS over a generated
HTML/DOCX/XLSX/ODS corpus. just bench saves JSON + Markdown reports to
crates/markkit-bench/results/, mirroring bashkit-bench. Criterion moves
to just bench-criterion.
---
 AGENTS.md                                   |   6 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                                |   8 +-
 CONTRIBUTING.md                             |   2 +-
 Cargo.lock                                  |   5 +
 README.md                                   |   2 +-
 crates/markkit-bench/Cargo.toml             |  14 +-
 crates/markkit-bench/README.md              |  28 ++
 crates/markkit-bench/src/alloc.rs           | 106 +++++
 crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs           | 411 ++++++++++++++++++
 crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs            | 214 +++++++++-
 crates/markkit-bench/src/report.rs          | 444 ++++++++++++++++++++
 justfile                                    |  22 +-
 knowledge/foundations/architecture.md       |   2 +-
 knowledge/log.md                            |   1 +
 knowledge/operations/index.md               |   1 +
 knowledge/operations/performance-results.md |  79 ++++
 knowledge/operations/testing.md             |   8 +-
 17 files changed, 1332 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/README.md
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/src/alloc.rs
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/src/report.rs
 create mode 100644 knowledge/operations/performance-results.md

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 9204780..c240825 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Fix root cause. Unsure: read more code; if stuck, ask w/ short options. Unrecogn
 | operations/examples | `examples/` contents and requirements |
 | operations/maintenance | Maintenance invocation contract + checklist + workflow credential audit |
 | operations/release-process | Agent-driven release, crates.io + PyPI + npm |
+| operations/performance-results | Benchmark harness, metrics, committed results |
 | operations/eval | LLM-as-judge eval design (harness is a stub) |
 
 ### Documentation
@@ -67,7 +68,8 @@ just lint          # clippy -D warnings
 just check         # fmt + clippy + test + knowledge + scripts + examples
 just check-okf     # knowledge/ OKF conformance
 just examples      # Run every example
-just bench         # Criterion benches (crates/markkit/benches)
+just bench         # Benchmark harness, saves results to crates/markkit-bench/results
+just bench-criterion # Criterion micro-benches (crates/markkit/benches)
 just pre-pr        # Pre-PR checks
 ```
 
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ just pre-pr        # Pre-PR checks
 |-------|---------|
 | `markkit` | Core extraction library (HTML, DOCX, spreadsheets) |
 | `markkit-cli` | `markkit` CLI |
-| `markkit-bench` | Benchmark harness (stub; real benches are criterion in `markkit`) |
+| `markkit-bench` | Benchmark harness: ops/s, throughput, allocations; results committed |
 | `markkit-eval` | LLM evaluation harness (stub) |
 | `markkit-python` | Python bindings (PyO3), module `markkit` |
 | `markkit-js` | Node.js bindings (NAPI-RS), package `@everruns/markkit` |
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6b78190..c096d98 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
   fetch by `max_processing_secs`. New builder options `allow_private_networks(true)` and `allow_host(..)`;
   refusals return the new `Error::UrlBlocked`.
 
+### Added
+
+- `markkit-bench` harness (`just bench`): per-case latency, ops/s, throughput, heap allocations and
+  peak heap, plus process peak RSS, over a generated HTML/DOCX/XLSX/ODS corpus. Runs are saved as
+  JSON + Markdown in `crates/markkit-bench/results/` and committed.
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Design docs moved from `specs/` to an OKF v0.2 knowledge bundle in `knowledge/`, validated in CI.
 - CI workflows declare read-only default permissions and do not persist checkout credentials.
-- CI runs every example; `just bench` now runs the criterion benchmarks.
+- CI runs every example; criterion benchmarks run with `just bench-criterion`.
 - README, SECURITY and binding docs corrected: Python module is `markkit`.
 - Dependencies: drop unused `async-trait`, `futures`, `regex`, `unicode-segmentation`, `encoding_rs`,
   `base64`, `mime`, `lol_html` (core) and `tracing-subscriber`, plus unused deps of the CLI, bindings
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 3c1f58f..49c9cfb 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ We use [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/):
 - Write failing tests before fixing bugs
 - Cover positive and negative scenarios
 - Security tests for input parsing changes
-- Run `just bench` for performance-sensitive changes
+- Run `just bench` for performance-sensitive changes and commit the saved results
 - Run `just examples` when the public API changes
 
 ## Knowledge
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 01303b3..a0f7354 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1206,6 +1206,11 @@ version = "0.1.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "clap",
+ "markkit",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "tempfile",
+ "zip",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0d9e55a..505b07e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ just test       # Run all tests
 just lint       # Run clippy
 just check      # fmt, clippy, tests, knowledge, examples
 just pre-pr     # Full pre-PR validation
-just bench      # Criterion benchmarks
+just bench      # Benchmarks, results saved to crates/markkit-bench/results
 ```
 
 Coding agents: start with [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md).
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/Cargo.toml b/crates/markkit-bench/Cargo.toml
index 45f7ed3..b220c0f 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# Benchmark tool for measuring markkit extraction performance
+# Benchmark harness for markkit extraction.
+# Measures latency, ops/sec, throughput and heap allocations per case and saves
+# JSON + Markdown reports to results/ (committed, like bashkit-bench).
+# Usage: cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- [options]
 
 [package]
 name = "markkit-bench"
@@ -7,11 +10,20 @@ edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 authors.workspace = true
 description = "Benchmark tool for markkit markdown extraction"
+publish = false
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "markkit-bench"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
+# No http_client: the harness is offline and must not link reqwest/hyper.
+markkit = { path = "../markkit", default-features = false, features = ["html", "docx", "spreadsheet"] }
+zip = { workspace = true }
+serde.workspace = true
+serde_json.workspace = true
 clap.workspace = true
 anyhow.workspace = true
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f499b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# markkit-bench
+
+End-to-end benchmark harness for markkit extraction. Runs in-process over a
+generated corpus (HTML, DOCX, XLSX, ODS, format detection) and reports, per case:
+
+- latency: mean, median, stddev, min, max
+- ops/sec and input throughput (MiB/s)
+- heap allocations per operation: count, bytes requested, peak live heap
+- process peak RSS (Linux)
+
+## Usage
+
+```bash
+just bench                         # run + save to results/
+just bench-accurate                # 100 iterations, 10 warmup, save
+just bench-quick --category html   # explore, nothing saved
+just bench-list                    # list cases
+```
+
+Or directly: `cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- --help`.
+
+## Results
+
+Saved runs live in [`results/`](results/) as
+`bench-<moniker>-<unix-ts>.{json,md}` and are committed. Compare runs from the
+same moniker only. Commit a fresh run with performance-relevant PRs.
+
+Design and metric definitions: `knowledge/operations/performance-results.md`.
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/src/alloc.rs b/crates/markkit-bench/src/alloc.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c5203f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/src/alloc.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+//! Counting global allocator.
+//!
+//! Wraps the system allocator and tracks allocation count, bytes requested and
+//! live/peak heap bytes with relaxed atomics. Overhead is a few atomic adds per
+//! call, so timings stay comparable; allocation stats are still collected on a
+//! separate pass (see `runner`) so they never skew the timed iterations.
+
+use std::alloc::{GlobalAlloc, Layout, System};
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering::Relaxed};
+
+pub struct CountingAlloc;
+
+static ALLOCS: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
+static BYTES: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
+static LIVE: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
+static PEAK: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(0);
+
+fn on_alloc(size: usize) {
+    ALLOCS.fetch_add(1, Relaxed);
+    BYTES.fetch_add(size as u64, Relaxed);
+    let live = LIVE.fetch_add(size as u64, Relaxed) + size as u64;
+    PEAK.fetch_max(live, Relaxed);
+}
+
+fn on_dealloc(size: usize) {
+    LIVE.fetch_sub(size as u64, Relaxed);
+}
+
+// SAFETY: forwards every call to `System` unchanged; only bookkeeping is added.
+unsafe impl GlobalAlloc for CountingAlloc {
+    unsafe fn alloc(&self, layout: Layout) -> *mut u8 {
+        let p = unsafe { System.alloc(layout) };
+        if !p.is_null() {
+            on_alloc(layout.size());
+        }
+        p
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn alloc_zeroed(&self, layout: Layout) -> *mut u8 {
+        let p = unsafe { System.alloc_zeroed(layout) };
+        if !p.is_null() {
+            on_alloc(layout.size());
+        }
+        p
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn dealloc(&self, ptr: *mut u8, layout: Layout) {
+        unsafe { System.dealloc(ptr, layout) };
+        on_dealloc(layout.size());
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn realloc(&self, ptr: *mut u8, layout: Layout, new_size: usize) -> *mut u8 {
+        let p = unsafe { System.realloc(ptr, layout, new_size) };
+        if !p.is_null() {
+            // A realloc counts as one allocation of the new size.
+            on_dealloc(layout.size());
+            on_alloc(new_size);
+        }
+        p
+    }
+}
+
+/// Heap activity between [`Snapshot::start`] and [`Snapshot::finish`].
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct AllocStats {
+    pub allocations: u64,
+    pub allocated_bytes: u64,
+    /// Peak live heap above the level at `start`.
+    pub peak_bytes: u64,
+}
+
+pub struct Snapshot {
+    allocs: u64,
+    bytes: u64,
+    live: u64,
+}
+
+impl Snapshot {
+    /// Start a measurement window. Resets the peak to the current live level,
+    /// so windows must not overlap (the harness is single-threaded).
+    pub fn start() -> Self {
+        let live = LIVE.load(Relaxed);
+        PEAK.store(live, Relaxed);
+        Self {
+            allocs: ALLOCS.load(Relaxed),
+            bytes: BYTES.load(Relaxed),
+            live,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn finish(self) -> AllocStats {
+        AllocStats {
+            allocations: ALLOCS.load(Relaxed) - self.allocs,
+            allocated_bytes: BYTES.load(Relaxed) - self.bytes,
+            peak_bytes: PEAK.load(Relaxed).saturating_sub(self.live),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Process peak resident set size in bytes (Linux `VmHWM`), if available.
+pub fn peak_rss_bytes() -> Option<u64> {
+    let status = std::fs::read_to_string("/proc/self/status").ok()?;
+    let line = status.lines().find(|l| l.starts_with("VmHWM:"))?;
+    let kb: u64 = line.split_whitespace().nth(1)?.parse().ok()?;
+    Some(kb * 1024)
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs b/crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38a1d40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,411 @@
+//! Benchmark corpus.
+//!
+//! Inputs are generated deterministically in code (no network, no committed
+//! binaries) so every run on every machine measures the same bytes. Sizes stay
+//! under the default builder limits: the harness measures the happy path, the
+//! security limits are covered by tests.
+
+use std::io::{Cursor, Write};
+
+use markkit::{DocumentHint, Format, Markkit};
+use zip::write::{SimpleFileOptions, ZipWriter};
+
+/// What a case feeds to markkit.
+pub enum Input {
+    /// `Markkit::extract_html_sync`.
+    Html(String),
+    /// `Markkit::extract_document_sync` with a file-name hint.
+    Document {
+        bytes: Vec<u8>,
+        file_name: &'static str,
+    },
+    /// `Format::detect` on raw bytes with no hint (magic-byte sniffing).
+    Detect(Vec<u8>),
+}
+
+pub struct Case {
+    pub name: &'static str,
+    pub category: &'static str,
+    pub description: &'static str,
+    pub input: Input,
+}
+
+impl Case {
+    pub fn input_bytes(&self) -> usize {
+        match &self.input {
+            Input::Html(s) => s.len(),
+            Input::Document { bytes, .. } | Input::Detect(bytes) => bytes.len(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Run one operation. Returns output size in bytes.
+    pub fn run(&self, mk: &Markkit) -> Result<usize, String> {
+        match &self.input {
+            Input::Html(html) => mk
+                .extract_html_sync(html)
+                .map(|md| md.len())
+                .map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
+            Input::Document { bytes, file_name } => mk
+                .extract_document_sync(
+                    bytes,
+                    DocumentHint {
+                        content_type: None,
+                        file_name: Some(file_name),
+                    },
+                )
+                .map(|e| e.markdown.len())
+                .map_err(|e| e.to_string()),
+            Input::Detect(bytes) => match Format::detect(bytes, DocumentHint::default()) {
+                Format::Unknown => Err("format not detected".into()),
+                _ => Ok(0),
+            },
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub const CATEGORIES: &[&str] = &["html", "docx", "spreadsheet", "detect"];
+
+pub fn all() -> Vec<Case> {
+    let docx_large = docx_report(400);
+    vec![
+        Case {
+            name: "html_fixture_article",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "Golden fixture full_article.html",
+            input: Input::Html(
+                include_str!("../../markkit/tests/fixtures/html/full_article.html").into(),
+            ),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "html_blog_post",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "Article with nav/footer/scripts, 20 sections",
+            input: Input::Html(html_page(20, true)),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "html_docs_page",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "Long docs page, 400 sections, no chrome",
+            input: Input::Html(html_page(400, false)),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "html_tables",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "50 tables x 40 rows x 6 cols",
+            input: Input::Html(html_tables(50, 40, 6)),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "html_boilerplate",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "Mostly script/style/nav to strip, little content",
+            input: Input::Html(html_boilerplate(400)),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "html_deep_nesting",
+            category: "html",
+            description: "Divs nested past the depth limit (1000 levels)",
+            input: Input::Html(format!(
+                "{}<p>deep</p>{}",
+                "<div>".repeat(1000),
+                "</div>".repeat(1000)
+            )),
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "docx_memo",
+            category: "docx",
+            description: "Short memo: heading, 10 paragraphs, 1 list",
+            input: Input::Document {
+                bytes: docx_report(1),
+                file_name: "memo.docx",
+            },
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "docx_report",
+            category: "docx",
+            description: "Report: 400 sections with lists and tables",
+            input: Input::Document {
+                bytes: docx_large.clone(),
+                file_name: "report.docx",
+            },
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "xlsx_small",
+            category: "spreadsheet",
+            description: "1 sheet, 50 rows x 5 cols",
+            input: Input::Document {
+                bytes: xlsx(1, 50, 5),
+                file_name: "small.xlsx",
+            },
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "xlsx_large",
+            category: "spreadsheet",
+            description: "3 sheets, 5000 rows x 10 cols each (150k cells)",
+            input: Input::Document {
+                bytes: xlsx(3, 5000, 10),
+                file_name: "large.xlsx",
+            },
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "ods_medium",
+            category: "spreadsheet",
+            description: "1 sheet, 2000 rows x 8 cols",
+            input: Input::Document {
+                bytes: ods(2000, 8),
+                file_name: "medium.ods",
+            },
+        },
+        Case {
+            name: "detect_docx_magic",
+            category: "detect",
+            description: "Sniff DOCX from bytes without a hint",
+            input: Input::Detect(docx_large),
+        },
+    ]
+}
+
+// ─── HTML ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const LOREM: &str = "Markkit turns documents into clean markdown for language models. \
+It keeps <strong>structure</strong>, drops <em>noise</em>, and links to \
+<a href=\"https://example.com/docs\">reference docs</a> stay intact.";
+
+fn html_page(sections: usize, chrome: bool) -> String {
+    let mut s = String::from("<!doctype html><html><head><title>Bench page</title>");
+    if chrome {
+        s.push_str("<style>body{font:14px sans-serif}.nav{display:flex}</style>");
+        s.push_str("<script>window.dataLayer=[];function track(){}</script>");
+    }
+    s.push_str("</head><body>");
+    if chrome {
+        s.push_str("<nav class=\"nav\"><a href=\"/\">Home</a><a href=\"/blog\">Blog</a></nav>");
+    }
+    s.push_str("<main><article><h1>Benchmark document</h1>");
+    for i in 0..sections {
+        s.push_str(&format!("<h2>Section {i}</h2>"));
+        for _ in 0..3 {
+            s.push_str(&format!("<p>{LOREM}</p>"));
+        }
+        s.push_str(
+            "<ul><li>First point</li><li>Second <code>inline()</code></li><li>Third</li></ul>",
+        );
+        if i % 4 == 0 {
+            s.push_str("<pre><code class=\"language-rust\">fn main() {\n    println!(\"hi\");\n}</code></pre>");
+        }
+        if i % 5 == 0 {
+            s.push_str("<blockquote><p>A quoted remark.</p></blockquote>");
+            s.push_str("<img src=\"/img/chart.png\" alt=\"Chart\">");
+        }
+    }
+    s.push_str("</article></main>");
+    if chrome {
+        s.push_str("<footer><p>Copyright</p><script>track()</script></footer>");
+    }
+    s.push_str("</body></html>");
+    s
+}
+
+fn html_tables(tables: usize, rows: usize, cols: usize) -> String {
+    let mut s = String::from("<html><body>");
+    for t in 0..tables {
+        s.push_str(&format!("<h3>Table {t}</h3><table><thead><tr>"));
+        for c in 0..cols {
+            s.push_str(&format!("<th>Col {c}</th>"));
+        }
+        s.push_str("</tr></thead><tbody>");
+        for r in 0..rows {
+            s.push_str("<tr>");
+            for c in 0..cols {
+                s.push_str(&format!("<td>r{r}c{c} value</td>"));
+            }
+            s.push_str("</tr>");
+        }
+        s.push_str("</tbody></table>");
+    }
+    s.push_str("</body></html>");
+    s
+}
+
+fn html_boilerplate(blocks: usize) -> String {
+    let mut s = String::from("<html><head>");
+    for i in 0..blocks {
+        s.push_str(&format!(
+            "<script>var x{i} = {{a: 1, b: [1,2,3], c: 'payload {i}'}};</script>"
+        ));
+        s.push_str(&format!(
+            "<style>.c{i} {{ color: red; margin: {i}px; }}</style>"
+        ));
+    }
+    s.push_str("</head><body><nav><a href=\"/\">Home</a></nav><main><h1>Title</h1>");
+    s.push_str(&format!("<p>{LOREM}</p>"));
+    s.push_str("</main><aside>Related</aside><footer>Footer</footer></body></html>");
+    s
+}
+
+// ─── Office ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+fn zip_bytes(entries: &[(&str, &[u8])]) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut w = ZipWriter::new(Cursor::new(Vec::new()));
+    for (name, data) in entries {
+        let opts = if *name == "mimetype" {
+            SimpleFileOptions::default().compression_method(zip::CompressionMethod::Stored)
+        } else {
+            SimpleFileOptions::default()
+        };
+        w.start_file(*name, opts).expect("zip entry");
+        w.write_all(data).expect("zip write");
+    }
+    w.finish().expect("zip finish").into_inner()
+}
+
+const W_NS: &str = r#"xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships""#;
+
+const NUMBERING: &str = r#"<w:abstractNum w:abstractNumId="0"><w:lvl w:ilvl="0"><w:start w:val="1"/><w:numFmt w:val="bullet"/></w:lvl></w:abstractNum><w:num w:numId="1"><w:abstractNumId w:val="0"/></w:num>"#;
+
+fn docx_report(sections: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut body = String::new();
+    for i in 0..sections {
+        body.push_str(&format!(
+            "<w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"Heading1\"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>Section {i}</w:t></w:r></w:p>"
+        ));
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            body.push_str(
+                "<w:p><w:r><w:t xml:space=\"preserve\">Plain text paragraph with </w:t></w:r>\
+                 <w:r><w:rPr><w:b/></w:rPr><w:t>bold</w:t></w:r>\
+                 <w:r><w:t xml:space=\"preserve\"> and more words to read.</w:t></w:r></w:p>",
+            );
+        }
+        for item in ["Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma"] {
+            body.push_str(&format!(
+                "<w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val=\"ListParagraph\"/><w:numPr><w:ilvl w:val=\"0\"/><w:numId w:val=\"1\"/></w:numPr></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>{item}</w:t></w:r></w:p>"
+            ));
+        }
+        if sections > 1 && i % 10 == 0 {
+            body.push_str("<w:tbl>");
+            for r in 0..10 {
+                body.push_str("<w:tr>");
+                for c in 0..4 {
+                    body.push_str(&format!(
+                        "<w:tc><w:p><w:r><w:t>r{r}c{c}</w:t></w:r></w:p></w:tc>"
+                    ));
+                }
+                body.push_str("</w:tr>");
+            }
+            body.push_str("</w:tbl>");
+        }
+    }
+    let document = format!(
+        r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><w:document {W_NS}><w:body>{body}</w:body></w:document>"#
+    );
+    let numbering =
+        format!(r#"<?xml version="1.0"?><w:numbering {W_NS}>{NUMBERING}</w:numbering>"#);
+    zip_bytes(&[
+        (
+            "[Content_Types].xml",
+            br#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types"><Default Extension="rels" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-package.relationships+xml"/><Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml"/><Override PartName="/word/document.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.main+xml"/></Types>"#,
+        ),
+        (
+            "_rels/.rels",
+            br#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Target="word/document.xml"/></Relationships>"#,
+        ),
+        ("word/document.xml", document.as_bytes()),
+        ("word/numbering.xml", numbering.as_bytes()),
+    ])
+}
+
+fn col_name(mut c: usize) -> String {
+    let mut s = Vec::new();
+    loop {
+        s.push(b'A' + (c % 26) as u8);
+        if c < 26 {
+            break;
+        }
+        c = c / 26 - 1;
+    }
+    s.reverse();
+    String::from_utf8(s).expect("ascii")
+}
+
+fn xlsx(sheets: usize, rows: usize, cols: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut ct = String::from(
+        r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types"><Default Extension="rels" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-package.relationships+xml"/><Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml"/><Override PartName="/xl/workbook.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.main+xml"/>"#,
+    );
+    let mut wb_sheets = String::new();
+    let mut wb_rels = String::new();
+    let mut parts: Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)> = Vec::new();
+    for n in 1..=sheets {
+        ct.push_str(&format!(r#"<Override PartName="/xl/worksheets/sheet{n}.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.worksheet+xml"/>"#));
+        wb_sheets.push_str(&format!(
+            r#"<sheet name="Sheet{n}" sheetId="{n}" r:id="rId{n}"/>"#
+        ));
+        wb_rels.push_str(&format!(r#"<Relationship Id="rId{n}" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/worksheet" Target="worksheets/sheet{n}.xml"/>"#));
+        let mut data = String::new();
+        for r in 0..rows {
+            data.push_str(&format!(r#"<row r="{}">"#, r + 1));
+            for c in 0..cols {
+                let at = format!("{}{}", col_name(c), r + 1);
+                if r == 0 || c % 2 == 0 {
+                    data.push_str(&format!(
+                        r#"<c r="{at}" t="inlineStr"><is><t>item {r}-{c}</t></is></c>"#
+                    ));
+                } else {
+                    data.push_str(&format!(r#"<c r="{at}"><v>{}.25</v></c>"#, r * c));
+                }
+            }
+            data.push_str("</row>");
+        }
+        let xml = format!(
+            r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><worksheet xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main"><sheetData>{data}</sheetData></worksheet>"#
+        );
+        parts.push((format!("xl/worksheets/sheet{n}.xml"), xml.into_bytes()));
+    }
+    ct.push_str("</Types>");
+    let workbook = format!(
+        r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><workbook xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships"><sheets>{wb_sheets}</sheets></workbook>"#
+    );
+    let rels = format!(
+        r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships">{wb_rels}</Relationships>"#
+    );
+    let root_rels = br#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Target="xl/workbook.xml"/></Relationships>"#;
+    let mut entries: Vec<(&str, &[u8])> = vec![
+        ("[Content_Types].xml", ct.as_bytes()),
+        ("_rels/.rels", root_rels),
+        ("xl/workbook.xml", workbook.as_bytes()),
+        ("xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels", rels.as_bytes()),
+    ];
+    entries.extend(parts.iter().map(|(n, d)| (n.as_str(), d.as_slice())));
+    zip_bytes(&entries)
+}
+
+fn ods(rows: usize, cols: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut table = String::from(r#"<table:table table:name="Data">"#);
+    for r in 0..rows {
+        table.push_str("<table:table-row>");
+        for c in 0..cols {
+            if r == 0 || c % 2 == 0 {
+                table.push_str(&format!(
+                    r#"<table:table-cell office:value-type="string"><text:p>item {r}-{c}</text:p></table:table-cell>"#
+                ));
+            } else {
+                let v = r * c;
+                table.push_str(&format!(
+                    r#"<table:table-cell office:value-type="float" office:value="{v}"><text:p>{v}</text:p></table:table-cell>"#
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+        table.push_str("</table:table-row>");
+    }
+    table.push_str("</table:table>");
+    let content = format!(
+        r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><office:document-content xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:table="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0" xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0" office:version="1.2"><office:body><office:spreadsheet>{table}</office:spreadsheet></office:body></office:document-content>"#
+    );
+    let manifest = br#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><manifest:manifest xmlns:manifest="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:manifest:1.0"><manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path="/" manifest:media-type="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet"/><manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path="content.xml" manifest:media-type="text/xml"/></manifest:manifest>"#;
+    zip_bytes(&[
+        (
+            "mimetype",
+            b"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet",
+        ),
+        ("content.xml", content.as_bytes()),
+        ("META-INF/manifest.xml", manifest),
+    ])
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs b/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
index 91f4396..ff9c7c0 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
@@ -1,21 +1,221 @@
-use anyhow::Result;
+//! markkit-bench: extraction benchmark harness.
+//!
+//! Decisions:
+//! - Mirrors everruns/bashkit's `bashkit-bench`: in-process runs, warmup then
+//!   timed iterations, JSON + Markdown reports saved as
+//!   `results/bench-<moniker>-<unix-ts>.{json,md}` and committed, so history
+//!   lives in git next to the code that produced it.
+//! - Adds what bashkit lacks: heap allocations per op (count, bytes, peak) from
+//!   a counting global allocator, measured on a separate untimed pass, plus
+//!   process peak RSS.
+//! - Criterion (`crates/markkit/benches`) stays for statistically rigorous
+//!   micro-benchmarks; this harness is the end-to-end, comparable-over-time view.
+//! - Corpus is generated in code (`cases.rs`), offline, deterministic.
+
+mod alloc;
+mod cases;
+mod report;
+
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::time::Instant;
+
+use anyhow::{Result, bail};
 use clap::Parser;
 
+use crate::cases::Case;
+use crate::report::{CaseResult, Report, SystemInfo};
+
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: alloc::CountingAlloc = alloc::CountingAlloc;
+
 #[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(name = "markkit-bench", about = "Benchmark markkit extraction")]
 struct Cli {
-    /// Number of iterations per benchmark
-    #[arg(long, default_value = "100")]
+    /// Timed iterations per case
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 20)]
     iterations: usize,
 
-    /// Category to benchmark (html, pdf, docx, all)
+    /// Untimed warmup iterations per case
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 3)]
+    warmup: usize,
+
+    /// Category to run (html, docx, spreadsheet, detect, all)
     #[arg(long, default_value = "all")]
     category: String,
+
+    /// Only run cases whose name contains this substring
+    #[arg(long)]
+    filter: Option<String>,
+
+    /// List cases and exit
+    #[arg(long)]
+    list: bool,
+
+    /// Save JSON + Markdown reports
+    #[arg(long)]
+    save: bool,
+
+    /// Directory for saved reports
+    #[arg(long, default_value = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/results"))]
+    output_dir: PathBuf,
+
+    /// Machine label used in file names (default: <hostname>-<os>-<arch>)
+    #[arg(long)]
+    moniker: Option<String>,
 }
 
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
-    let _cli = Cli::parse();
-    // TODO: Implement benchmark harness
-    println!("markkit-bench: benchmark harness not yet implemented");
+    let cli = Cli::parse();
+    if cli.iterations == 0 {
+        bail!("--iterations must be at least 1");
+    }
+    if cli.category != "all" && !cases::CATEGORIES.contains(&cli.category.as_str()) {
+        bail!(
+            "unknown category '{}', expected one of: all, {}",
+            cli.category,
+            cases::CATEGORIES.join(", ")
+        );
+    }
+
+    let selected = select(cases::all(), &cli.category, cli.filter.as_deref());
+    if cli.list {
+        for c in &selected {
+            println!(
+                "{:<22} {:<12} {:>10} B  {}",
+                c.name,
+                c.category,
+                c.input_bytes(),
+                c.description
+            );
+        }
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+    if selected.is_empty() {
+        bail!("no cases match the given category/filter");
+    }
+
+    let mk = markkit::Markkit::builder().build();
+    let mut results = Vec::with_capacity(selected.len());
+    for case in &selected {
+        let r = run_case(&mk, case, cli.warmup, cli.iterations);
+        eprintln!("{}", report::progress_line(&r));
+        results.push(r);
+    }
+
+    let system = SystemInfo::collect(cli.moniker.as_deref());
+    let report = Report::new(system, cli.iterations, cli.warmup, results);
+    println!("{}", report.to_markdown());
+
+    if cli.save {
+        let (json, md) = report.save(&cli.output_dir)?;
+        eprintln!("saved {}", json.display());
+        eprintln!("saved {}", md.display());
+    }
+    if report.results.iter().any(|r| r.errors > 0) {
+        bail!("one or more cases failed");
+    }
     Ok(())
 }
+
+fn select(all: Vec<Case>, category: &str, filter: Option<&str>) -> Vec<Case> {
+    all.into_iter()
+        .filter(|c| category == "all" || c.category == category)
+        .filter(|c| filter.is_none_or(|f| c.name.contains(f)))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Warmup, timed iterations, then one untimed pass under the allocation counter.
+fn run_case(mk: &markkit::Markkit, case: &Case, warmup: usize, iterations: usize) -> CaseResult {
+    let mut errors = Vec::new();
+    for _ in 0..warmup {
+        if let Err(e) = case.run(mk) {
+            errors.push(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    let mut times_ns = Vec::with_capacity(iterations);
+    let mut output_bytes = 0;
+    for _ in 0..iterations {
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        let out = case.run(mk);
+        times_ns.push(start.elapsed().as_nanos() as u64);
+        match out {
+            Ok(n) => output_bytes = n,
+            Err(e) => errors.push(e),
+        }
+    }
+
+    let snap = alloc::Snapshot::start();
+    let out = case.run(mk);
+    let allocs = snap.finish();
+    if let Err(e) = out {
+        errors.push(e);
+    }
+
+    errors.dedup();
+    CaseResult::new(case, times_ns, output_bytes, allocs, errors)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn every_case_runs_without_errors() {
+        let mk = markkit::Markkit::builder().build();
+        for case in cases::all() {
+            let r = run_case(&mk, &case, 0, 1);
+            assert_eq!(r.errors, 0, "{}: {:?}", case.name, r.error_messages);
+            if case.category != "detect" {
+                assert!(r.output_bytes > 0, "{} produced no output", case.name);
+            }
+            assert!(r.allocations > 0 || case.category == "detect");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn case_names_are_unique_and_categories_known() {
+        let all = cases::all();
+        let mut names: Vec<_> = all.iter().map(|c| c.name).collect();
+        names.sort_unstable();
+        names.dedup();
+        assert_eq!(names.len(), all.len());
+        assert!(all.iter().all(|c| cases::CATEGORIES.contains(&c.category)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn select_filters_by_category_and_name() {
+        let html = select(cases::all(), "html", None);
+        assert!(!html.is_empty());
+        assert!(html.iter().all(|c| c.category == "html"));
+        let one = select(cases::all(), "all", Some("xlsx_small"));
+        assert_eq!(one.len(), 1);
+        assert!(select(cases::all(), "docx", Some("xlsx")).is_empty());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn failing_case_is_reported_not_panicking() {
+        let case = Case {
+            name: "bad",
+            category: "detect",
+            description: "",
+            input: cases::Input::Detect(b"\x00\x01".to_vec()),
+        };
+        let mk = markkit::Markkit::builder().build();
+        let r = run_case(&mk, &case, 1, 2);
+        assert!(r.errors > 0);
+        assert_eq!(r.error_messages, vec!["format not detected".to_string()]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn alloc_counter_sees_heap_activity() {
+        let snap = alloc::Snapshot::start();
+        let v: Vec<u8> = std::hint::black_box(vec![0u8; 4096]);
+        let stats = snap.finish();
+        drop(v);
+        assert!(stats.allocations >= 1);
+        // Counters are process-wide and tests run in parallel, so only the
+        // monotonic counters are asserted.
+        assert!(stats.allocated_bytes >= 4096);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/src/report.rs b/crates/markkit-bench/src/report.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..820fdfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/src/report.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,444 @@
+//! Result statistics, system info, and JSON / Markdown reports.
+
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+use crate::alloc::{self, AllocStats};
+use crate::cases::{CATEGORIES, Case};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+pub struct CaseResult {
+    pub name: String,
+    pub category: String,
+    pub description: String,
+    pub iterations: usize,
+    pub input_bytes: usize,
+    pub output_bytes: usize,
+    pub times_ns: Vec<u64>,
+    pub mean_ns: f64,
+    pub median_ns: f64,
+    pub stddev_ns: f64,
+    pub min_ns: u64,
+    pub max_ns: u64,
+    /// Operations per second, from the mean.
+    pub ops_per_sec: f64,
+    /// Input MiB processed per second, from the mean.
+    pub throughput_mib_s: f64,
+    /// Heap allocations in one operation.
+    pub allocations: u64,
+    /// Heap bytes requested in one operation.
+    pub allocated_bytes: u64,
+    /// Peak live heap bytes during one operation.
+    pub peak_heap_bytes: u64,
+    pub errors: usize,
+    pub error_messages: Vec<String>,
+}
+
+impl CaseResult {
+    pub fn new(
+        case: &Case,
+        times_ns: Vec<u64>,
+        output_bytes: usize,
+        allocs: AllocStats,
+        error_messages: Vec<String>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        let s = Stats::of(&times_ns);
+        let input_bytes = case.input_bytes();
+        let secs = s.mean / 1e9;
+        Self {
+            name: case.name.into(),
+            category: case.category.into(),
+            description: case.description.into(),
+            iterations: times_ns.len(),
+            input_bytes,
+            output_bytes,
+            mean_ns: s.mean,
+            median_ns: s.median,
+            stddev_ns: s.stddev,
+            min_ns: s.min,
+            max_ns: s.max,
+            ops_per_sec: if secs > 0.0 { 1.0 / secs } else { 0.0 },
+            throughput_mib_s: if secs > 0.0 {
+                input_bytes as f64 / MIB / secs
+            } else {
+                0.0
+            },
+            allocations: allocs.allocations,
+            allocated_bytes: allocs.allocated_bytes,
+            peak_heap_bytes: allocs.peak_bytes,
+            errors: error_messages.len(),
+            error_messages,
+            times_ns,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+const MIB: f64 = 1024.0 * 1024.0;
+
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Stats {
+    pub mean: f64,
+    pub median: f64,
+    pub stddev: f64,
+    pub min: u64,
+    pub max: u64,
+}
+
+impl Stats {
+    pub fn of(samples: &[u64]) -> Self {
+        if samples.is_empty() {
+            return Self {
+                mean: 0.0,
+                median: 0.0,
+                stddev: 0.0,
+                min: 0,
+                max: 0,
+            };
+        }
+        let n = samples.len() as f64;
+        let mean = samples.iter().map(|&x| x as f64).sum::<f64>() / n;
+        let var = samples
+            .iter()
+            .map(|&x| (x as f64 - mean).powi(2))
+            .sum::<f64>()
+            / n;
+        let mut sorted = samples.to_vec();
+        sorted.sort_unstable();
+        let mid = sorted.len() / 2;
+        let median = if sorted.len().is_multiple_of(2) {
+            (sorted[mid - 1] + sorted[mid]) as f64 / 2.0
+        } else {
+            sorted[mid] as f64
+        };
+        Self {
+            mean,
+            median,
+            stddev: var.sqrt(),
+            min: sorted[0],
+            max: sorted[sorted.len() - 1],
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+pub struct SystemInfo {
+    pub moniker: String,
+    pub hostname: String,
+    pub os: String,
+    pub arch: String,
+    pub cpus: usize,
+    pub markkit_version: String,
+    pub git_commit: Option<String>,
+    pub profile: String,
+}
+
+impl SystemInfo {
+    pub fn collect(moniker: Option<&str>) -> Self {
+        let hostname = hostname();
+        let os = std::env::consts::OS.to_string();
+        let arch = std::env::consts::ARCH.to_string();
+        let moniker = sanitize_moniker(
+            &moniker
+                .map(str::to_string)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| format!("{hostname}-{os}-{arch}")),
+        );
+        Self {
+            moniker,
+            hostname,
+            os,
+            arch,
+            cpus: std::thread::available_parallelism().map_or(0, |n| n.get()),
+            markkit_version: env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION").into(),
+            git_commit: git_commit(),
+            profile: if cfg!(debug_assertions) {
+                "debug"
+            } else {
+                "release"
+            }
+            .into(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn hostname() -> String {
+    std::env::var("HOSTNAME")
+        .ok()
+        .or_else(|| std::fs::read_to_string("/etc/hostname").ok())
+        .or_else(|| {
+            std::process::Command::new("hostname")
+                .output()
+                .ok()
+                .and_then(|o| String::from_utf8(o.stdout).ok())
+        })
+        .map(|h| h.trim().to_string())
+        .filter(|h| !h.is_empty())
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| "unknown".into())
+}
+
+fn git_commit() -> Option<String> {
+    let out = std::process::Command::new("git")
+        .args(["rev-parse", "--short=12", "HEAD"])
+        .current_dir(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"))
+        .output()
+        .ok()?;
+    let sha = String::from_utf8(out.stdout).ok()?.trim().to_string();
+    (out.status.success() && sha.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_hexdigit()) && !sha.is_empty())
+        .then_some(sha)
+}
+
+/// The moniker becomes part of a file name: keep `[A-Za-z0-9._-]`, map the rest
+/// to `-`, never start with `.`, cap the length. Hostnames and `--moniker` are
+/// untrusted, so `../x` or `a/b` must not escape the results directory.
+pub fn sanitize_moniker(raw: &str) -> String {
+    let mut s: String = raw
+        .chars()
+        .map(|c| {
+            if c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '.' | '_' | '-') {
+                c
+            } else {
+                '-'
+            }
+        })
+        .take(64)
+        .collect();
+    while s.starts_with('.') {
+        s.replace_range(..1, "-");
+    }
+    if s.is_empty() { "unknown".into() } else { s }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+pub struct Report {
+    pub timestamp: u64,
+    pub system: SystemInfo,
+    pub iterations: usize,
+    pub warmup: usize,
+    /// Process peak RSS after all cases (Linux only).
+    pub peak_rss_bytes: Option<u64>,
+    pub results: Vec<CaseResult>,
+}
+
+impl Report {
+    pub fn new(
+        system: SystemInfo,
+        iterations: usize,
+        warmup: usize,
+        results: Vec<CaseResult>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            timestamp: std::time::SystemTime::now()
+                .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
+                .map_or(0, |d| d.as_secs()),
+            system,
+            iterations,
+            warmup,
+            peak_rss_bytes: alloc::peak_rss_bytes(),
+            results,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn base_name(&self) -> String {
+        format!("bench-{}-{}", self.system.moniker, self.timestamp)
+    }
+
+    /// Write `<dir>/<base_name>.json` and `.md`.
+    pub fn save(&self, dir: &Path) -> Result<(PathBuf, PathBuf)> {
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(dir).with_context(|| format!("create {}", dir.display()))?;
+        // Not `with_extension`: monikers may contain dots (`mac.local`).
+        let base = self.base_name();
+        let json = dir.join(format!("{base}.json"));
+        let md = dir.join(format!("{base}.md"));
+        std::fs::write(&json, serde_json::to_string_pretty(self)? + "\n")
+            .with_context(|| format!("write {}", json.display()))?;
+        std::fs::write(&md, self.to_markdown())
+            .with_context(|| format!("write {}", md.display()))?;
+        Ok((json, md))
+    }
+
+    pub fn to_markdown(&self) -> String {
+        let sys = &self.system;
+        let mut md = String::from("# Markkit Benchmark Report\n\n## System Information\n\n");
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **Moniker**: `{}`\n", sys.moniker));
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **OS / Arch**: {} / {}\n", sys.os, sys.arch));
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **CPUs**: {}\n", sys.cpus));
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **markkit**: {}", sys.markkit_version));
+        if let Some(sha) = &sys.git_commit {
+            md.push_str(&format!(" (`{sha}`)"));
+        }
+        md.push('\n');
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **Profile**: {}\n", sys.profile));
+        md.push_str(&format!("- **Timestamp**: {}\n", self.timestamp));
+        md.push_str(&format!(
+            "- **Iterations**: {} (warmup {})\n",
+            self.iterations, self.warmup
+        ));
+        if let Some(rss) = self.peak_rss_bytes {
+            md.push_str(&format!("- **Peak RSS**: {}\n", fmt_bytes(rss)));
+        }
+
+        let errors: usize = self.results.iter().map(|r| r.errors).sum();
+        let total_ms: f64 = self.results.iter().map(|r| r.mean_ns).sum::<f64>() / 1e6;
+        md.push_str(&format!(
+            "\n## Summary\n\n{} cases, {:.3} ms total mean time per pass, {} errors.\n\n",
+            self.results.len(),
+            total_ms,
+            errors
+        ));
+        md.push_str(
+            "Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. \
+             Throughput is input bytes over mean time.\n",
+        );
+
+        for cat in CATEGORIES {
+            let rows: Vec<_> = self.results.iter().filter(|r| r.category == *cat).collect();
+            if rows.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            md.push_str(&format!("\n### {}\n\n", title(cat)));
+            md.push_str(
+                "| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |\n",
+            );
+            md.push_str(
+                "|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|\n",
+            );
+            for r in rows {
+                md.push_str(&format!(
+                    "| {} | {} | {} | {} | {} | ±{} | {:.0} | {:.1} | {} | {} | {} | {} |\n",
+                    r.name,
+                    fmt_bytes(r.input_bytes as u64),
+                    fmt_bytes(r.output_bytes as u64),
+                    fmt_ns(r.mean_ns),
+                    fmt_ns(r.median_ns),
+                    fmt_ns(r.stddev_ns),
+                    r.ops_per_sec,
+                    r.throughput_mib_s,
+                    r.allocations,
+                    fmt_bytes(r.allocated_bytes),
+                    fmt_bytes(r.peak_heap_bytes),
+                    if r.errors == 0 {
+                        "-".to_string()
+                    } else {
+                        r.errors.to_string()
+                    },
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+        md
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn progress_line(r: &CaseResult) -> String {
+    format!(
+        "{:<22} {:>10} {:>10.0} ops/s {:>8} allocs {:>10} peak{}",
+        r.name,
+        fmt_ns(r.mean_ns),
+        r.ops_per_sec,
+        r.allocations,
+        fmt_bytes(r.peak_heap_bytes),
+        if r.errors > 0 { "  ERROR" } else { "" }
+    )
+}
+
+fn title(cat: &str) -> String {
+    match cat {
+        "html" => "HTML".into(),
+        "docx" => "DOCX".into(),
+        other => {
+            let mut c = other.chars();
+            c.next()
+                .map(|f| f.to_uppercase().chain(c).collect())
+                .unwrap_or_default()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn fmt_ns(ns: f64) -> String {
+    if ns >= 1e9 {
+        format!("{:.2} s", ns / 1e9)
+    } else if ns >= 1e6 {
+        format!("{:.2} ms", ns / 1e6)
+    } else if ns >= 1e3 {
+        format!("{:.2} µs", ns / 1e3)
+    } else {
+        format!("{ns:.0} ns")
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn fmt_bytes(b: u64) -> String {
+    let b = b as f64;
+    if b >= MIB {
+        format!("{:.2} MiB", b / MIB)
+    } else if b >= 1024.0 {
+        format!("{:.1} KiB", b / 1024.0)
+    } else {
+        format!("{b:.0} B")
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stats_basic() {
+        let s = Stats::of(&[10, 20, 30, 40]);
+        assert_eq!(s.mean, 25.0);
+        assert_eq!(s.median, 25.0);
+        assert_eq!(s.min, 10);
+        assert_eq!(s.max, 40);
+        assert!((s.stddev - 125f64.sqrt()).abs() < 1e-9);
+        assert_eq!(Stats::of(&[7]).median, 7.0);
+        assert_eq!(Stats::of(&[]).mean, 0.0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn moniker_cannot_escape_results_dir() {
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker("host-linux-x86_64"), "host-linux-x86_64");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker("../../etc/passwd"), "-.-..-etc-passwd");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker("a/b\\c d\n"), "a-b-c-d-");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker(".hidden"), "-hidden");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker(""), "unknown");
+        assert_eq!(sanitize_moniker(&"x".repeat(500)).len(), 64);
+        for bad in ["..", "../x", "/abs", "a\0b"] {
+            let m = sanitize_moniker(bad);
+            assert!(!m.contains('/') && !m.contains('\\') && !m.starts_with('.'));
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn formatting() {
+        assert_eq!(fmt_ns(500.0), "500 ns");
+        assert_eq!(fmt_ns(1_500.0), "1.50 µs");
+        assert_eq!(fmt_ns(2_500_000.0), "2.50 ms");
+        assert_eq!(fmt_bytes(512), "512 B");
+        assert_eq!(fmt_bytes(2048), "2.0 KiB");
+        assert_eq!(fmt_bytes(3 * 1024 * 1024), "3.00 MiB");
+        assert_eq!(title("spreadsheet"), "Spreadsheet");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn save_writes_json_and_markdown() {
+        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let dir = tmp.path().join("results");
+        let report = Report::new(SystemInfo::collect(Some("../evil")), 1, 0, Vec::new());
+        let (json, md) = report.save(&dir).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(json.parent(), Some(dir.as_path()));
+        assert!(
+            json.file_name()
+                .unwrap()
+                .to_str()
+                .unwrap()
+                .starts_with("bench--.-evil-")
+        );
+        let parsed: serde_json::Value =
+            serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(&json).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed["iterations"], 1);
+        assert!(
+            std::fs::read_to_string(&md)
+                .unwrap()
+                .starts_with("# Markkit Benchmark Report")
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 85d67fd..ee63dd1 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -79,14 +79,26 @@ extract-file path:
 
 # ─── Benchmarks ──────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-# Run criterion benchmarks for the core crate
-bench *args:
-    cargo bench -p markkit --bench extraction {{args}}
+# Run the benchmark harness and save JSON/Markdown results to crates/markkit-bench/results/
+bench:
+    cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- --save
+
+# Benchmark with more iterations for accuracy and save results
+bench-accurate:
+    cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- --iterations 100 --warmup 10 --save
 
-# Run the markkit-bench harness (stub, not yet implemented)
-bench-harness *args:
+# Exploratory run, nothing saved (e.g. just bench-quick --category html)
+bench-quick *args:
     cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- {{args}}
 
+# List benchmark cases
+bench-list:
+    cargo run -p markkit-bench --release -- --list
+
+# Run criterion micro-benchmarks for the core crate
+bench-criterion *args:
+    cargo bench -p markkit --bench extraction {{args}}
+
 # ─── Eval ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 # Run the LLM evaluation harness (stub, not yet implemented)
diff --git a/knowledge/foundations/architecture.md b/knowledge/foundations/architecture.md
index 9781979..90f1a77 100644
--- a/knowledge/foundations/architecture.md
+++ b/knowledge/foundations/architecture.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Input (bytes/URL/file)
 |-------|---------|
 | `markkit` | Core library – parsing, conversion, API |
 | `markkit-cli` | Command-line tool |
-| `markkit-bench` | Performance benchmarks |
+| `markkit-bench` | Benchmark harness, results committed in `results/` |
 | `markkit-eval` | LLM-based quality evaluation |
 | `markkit-python` | Python bindings (PyO3) |
 | `markkit-js` | Node.js bindings (NAPI-RS) |
diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index 1b2ff07..e739db0 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## 2026-10-26
 
+* **Benchmarks**: `markkit-bench` is no longer a stub. It measures latency, ops/s, throughput and per-op heap allocations (count, bytes, peak) plus process peak RSS over a generated corpus, and `just bench` saves JSON + Markdown runs to `crates/markkit-bench/results/`, like bashkit. Criterion moves to `just bench-criterion`. See [Performance Results](operations/performance-results.md).
 * **URL fetch hardening**: T3 SSRF is mitigated. `extract_url` blocks non-public addresses by default (URL, resolver and redirect layers), enforces scheme, allowlist, redirect, body and time limits; new invariant S12 and `url_security` tests. Proxy-resolved names are the documented residual. See [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) and [Security Model](security/security-model.md).
 * **Dependency trim**: unused dependencies removed (lockfile shrinks by ~460 lines; the `instant`/`paste` unmaintained advisories and their `deny.toml` ignores are gone with the stub bench deps). quick-xml moves to 0.42, one version shared with calamine; markkit's XML walkers now read `&str` names and values. See [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T6d and [Maintenance](operations/maintenance.md).
 * **Inter-block whitespace**: indented HTML lost blank lines between blocks and leaked a leading space into every following line, because whitespace-only text between blocks stayed in the block list as `Text(" ")`. The parser now normalizes block-context lists; golden fixtures, which had recorded the broken output, are regenerated. See [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md) and [IR Specification](foundations/ir.md).
diff --git a/knowledge/operations/index.md b/knowledge/operations/index.md
index 0747777..7d52a00 100644
--- a/knowledge/operations/index.md
+++ b/knowledge/operations/index.md
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
 * [Examples](examples.md) - Runnable Rust examples in examples/, what each demonstrates, and their requirements.
 * [Maintenance](maintenance.md) - Maintenance invocation contract and the dependency, security, test, docs, and CI checklist.
 * [Release Process](release-process.md) - Versioning, agent-driven release flow, and publication to crates.io, PyPI, and npm.
+* [Performance Results](performance-results.md) - Benchmark harnesses, measured metrics, committed result locations, naming, and run contract.
 * [Evaluation Harness](eval.md) - LLM-as-judge extraction quality evaluation with its methodology, metrics, and providers.
diff --git a/knowledge/operations/performance-results.md b/knowledge/operations/performance-results.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f08f8bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/knowledge/operations/performance-results.md
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+type: Playbook
+title: Performance Results
+description: Benchmark harnesses, measured metrics, committed result locations, naming, and run contract.
+tags:
+  - markkit
+  - benchmarks
+  - performance
+---
+
+# Performance Results
+
+## Status
+Implemented
+
+Benchmark runs are historical artifacts committed to the repo, following
+everruns/bashkit's `bashkit-bench` layout. Reviewers compare a PR's run with the
+latest committed run from the same moniker.
+
+## Harnesses
+
+| Harness | Purpose | Results |
+|---------|---------|---------|
+| `markkit-bench` (`crates/markkit-bench`) | End-to-end extraction per case: latency, ops/s, throughput, heap allocations | `crates/markkit-bench/results/` |
+| Criterion (`crates/markkit/benches/extraction.rs`) | Statistically rigorous micro-benchmarks | `target/criterion/` (not committed) |
+
+## Metrics (per case)
+
+| Field | Meaning |
+|-------|---------|
+| `mean_ns`, `median_ns`, `stddev_ns`, `min_ns`, `max_ns`, `times_ns` | Wall time of timed iterations (after warmup) |
+| `ops_per_sec` | `1 / mean` |
+| `throughput_mib_s` | Input bytes / mean. Office inputs are compressed, so MiB/s is lower than for HTML |
+| `allocations`, `allocated_bytes` | Heap allocations and bytes requested in one operation (realloc counts as one) |
+| `peak_heap_bytes` | Peak live heap above the pre-call level in one operation |
+| `input_bytes`, `output_bytes` | Input size, Markdown size |
+| `errors`, `error_messages` | Failed operations; a run with errors exits non-zero |
+
+Report-level: system info (moniker, OS, arch, CPUs, markkit version, git
+commit, build profile), iterations, warmup, `peak_rss_bytes` (Linux `VmHWM`).
+
+Allocation stats come from a counting global allocator in the harness binary and
+are measured on one extra untimed pass, so counting overhead never enters timings.
+
+## Corpus
+
+Generated in `crates/markkit-bench/src/cases.rs`: deterministic, offline, no
+committed binaries, within default builder limits. Categories: `html`, `docx`,
+`spreadsheet`, `detect`. Adding or changing a case changes the numbers; note it
+in the PR and in `log.md`, since older runs stop being comparable for that case.
+
+## Result Files
+
+`results/bench-<moniker>-<unix-ts>.json` plus matching `.md`. Moniker defaults
+to `<hostname>-<os>-<arch>`, overridable with `--moniker`, sanitized to
+`[A-Za-z0-9._-]` with no leading dot (no path traversal from hostnames).
+
+## Run Commands
+
+| Recipe | Saves | Use |
+|--------|-------|-----|
+| `just bench` | yes | Default run (20 iterations, 3 warmup) |
+| `just bench-accurate` | yes | 100 iterations, 10 warmup |
+| `just bench-quick [--category C] [--filter S]` | no | Exploration |
+| `just bench-list` | no | List cases |
+| `just bench-criterion` | no | Criterion micro-benches |
+
+## Contract
+
+- Release builds only (`--release`); debug numbers are meaningless.
+- Commit saved runs for performance-relevant PRs and before releases.
+- Compare runs from the same moniker only; CPU, OS and container differ.
+- `cargo test -p markkit-bench` runs every case once, so a broken case fails CI.
+
+## See also
+
+- [Testing Strategy](testing.md), where benchmarks sit among test categories
+- [Architecture](../foundations/architecture.md), crate map
+- [Threat Model](../security/threat-model.md), limits the corpus stays within
diff --git a/knowledge/operations/testing.md b/knowledge/operations/testing.md
index 49bdfba..c59bcb1 100644
--- a/knowledge/operations/testing.md
+++ b/knowledge/operations/testing.md
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ tags:
 | `crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs` | Zip bombs, grid amplification, XML entities, malformed containers |
 | `crates/markkit/tests/common/` | In-memory DOCX/XLSX/XLS/ODS fixture builders |
 | `crates/markkit-cli/tests/cli_integration.rs` | CLI flags and output |
-| `crates/markkit/benches/extraction.rs` | Criterion throughput benchmarks |
+| `crates/markkit/benches/extraction.rs` | Criterion micro-benchmarks |
+| `crates/markkit-bench/` | Benchmark harness; `cargo test` runs every case once |
 
 Office fixtures are generated in code (`tests/common`), not committed binaries, so
 each security test states exactly which bytes it feeds the parser.
@@ -37,7 +38,9 @@ each security test states exactly which bytes it feeds the parser.
   indentation between blocks never changes output
 - **Security**: one or more tests per mitigated threat; the
   [Threat Model](../security/threat-model.md) maps threats to test names
-- **Benchmarks**: `just bench` (criterion); `markkit-bench` harness is a stub
+- **Benchmarks**: `just bench` runs `markkit-bench` (ops/s, throughput, allocations)
+  and saves results; `just bench-criterion` for micro-benchmarks. See
+  [Performance Results](performance-results.md)
 
 ## Rules
 
@@ -59,3 +62,4 @@ tarpaulin coverage (`--engine llvm`; ptrace segfaults on threaded socket tests).
 - [Threat Model](../security/threat-model.md), threat-to-test map
 - [Examples](examples.md), runnable examples CI executes
 - [Maintenance](maintenance.md), periodic test-health review
+- [Performance Results](performance-results.md), benchmark harness and stored results

From 7ce3a302f7dbbd12afa5ed209a9156761239623f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:36:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 02/11] chore(bench): add baseline results for vm-linux-x86_64

---
 crates/markkit-bench/README.md                |  14 +
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.json     | 522 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md       |  50 ++
 3 files changed, 586 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.json
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md

diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
index 2f499b6..b08dc3d 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
@@ -26,3 +26,17 @@ Saved runs live in [`results/`](results/) as
 same moniker only. Commit a fresh run with performance-relevant PRs.
 
 Design and metric definitions: `knowledge/operations/performance-results.md`.
+
+## Latest baseline (vm, linux x86_64, 4 CPUs, 2026-10-26)
+
+20 iterations, 3 warmup, release. Full report:
+[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md).
+
+| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
+|------|------:|-----:|------:|----------:|----------:|
+| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 45.6 µs | 21,948 | 204 | 27.3 KiB |
+| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 12.0 ms | 83 | 42,778 | 7.23 MiB |
+| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 13.5 ms | 74 | 44,149 | 8.23 MiB |
+| docx_report | 9.1 KiB (262 KiB out) | 36.6 ms | 27 | 265,311 | 18.26 MiB |
+| xlsx_large (150k cells) | 765.8 KiB | 180.7 ms | 6 | 722,794 | 22.65 MiB |
+| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 26.1 ms | 38 | 86,513 | 2.76 MiB |
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.json b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc4b206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.json
@@ -0,0 +1,522 @@
+{
+  "timestamp": 1793057755,
+  "system": {
+    "moniker": "vm-linux-x86_64",
+    "hostname": "vm",
+    "os": "linux",
+    "arch": "x86_64",
+    "cpus": 4,
+    "markkit_version": "0.1.1",
+    "git_commit": "30d3f30235bd",
+    "profile": "release"
+  },
+  "iterations": 20,
+  "warmup": 3,
+  "peak_rss_bytes": 35422208,
+  "results": [
+    {
+      "name": "html_fixture_article",
+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Golden fixture full_article.html",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 881,
+      "output_bytes": 315,
+      "times_ns": [
+        46733,
+        44687,
+        44434,
+        50542,
+        43708,
+        42874,
+        42635,
+        73044,
+        50159,
+        44050,
+        42911,
+        42677,
+        42727,
+        45199,
+        42665,
+        42636,
+        42317,
+        42167,
+        42411,
+        42668
+      ],
+      "mean_ns": 45562.2,
+      "median_ns": 42892.5,
+      "stddev_ns": 6734.065292228758,
+      "min_ns": 42167,
+      "max_ns": 73044,
+      "ops_per_sec": 21948.018313426484,
+      "throughput_mib_s": 18.440441259506922,
+      "allocations": 204,
+      "allocated_bytes": 61987,
+      "peak_heap_bytes": 27923,
+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "html_blog_post",
+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Article with nav/footer/scripts, 20 sections",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 15685,
+      "output_bytes": 12030,
+      "times_ns": [
+        471014,
+        499678,
+        457744,
+        476267,
+        453427,
+        2102312,
+        520266,
+        602805,
+        845149,
+        624104,
+        464402,
+        478485,
+        452050,
+        472440,
+        452836,
+        445556,
+        592397,
+        968555,
+        479343,
+        479621
+      ],
+      "mean_ns": 616922.55,
+      "median_ns": 478914.0,
+      "stddev_ns": 366316.38893796096,
+      "min_ns": 445556,
+      "max_ns": 2102312,
+      "ops_per_sec": 1620.9490153990964,
+      "throughput_mib_s": 24.24677401212199,
+      "allocations": 2187,
+      "allocated_bytes": 586222,
+      "peak_heap_bytes": 296465,
+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "html_docs_page",
+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Long docs page, 400 sections, no chrome",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 306808,
+      "output_bytes": 240691,
+      "times_ns": [
+        10878629,
+        11251405,
+        11231725,
+        12042285,
+        18611872,
+        14126986,
+        11613613,
+        11991803,
+        11317119,
+        11302788,
+        11245938,
+        11788844,
+        11796289,
+        11230212,
+        11715010,
+        12663333,
+        11327479,
+        10993213,
+        12139453,
+        11398843
+      ],
+      "mean_ns": 12033341.95,
+      "median_ns": 11506228.0,
+      "stddev_ns": 1663514.676858683,
+      "min_ns": 10878629,
+      "max_ns": 18611872,
+      "ops_per_sec": 83.10243356792499,
+      "throughput_mib_s": 24.315349042995386,
+      "allocations": 42778,
+      "allocated_bytes": 14996208,
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+    },
+    {
+      "name": "docx_memo",
+      "category": "docx",
+      "description": "Short memo: heading, 10 paragraphs, 1 list",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 1429,
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+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "docx_report",
+      "category": "docx",
+      "description": "Report: 400 sections with lists and tables",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 9299,
+      "output_bytes": 268569,
+      "times_ns": [
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+    {
+      "name": "xlsx_small",
+      "category": "spreadsheet",
+      "description": "1 sheet, 50 rows x 5 cols",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 2865,
+      "output_bytes": 2723,
+      "times_ns": [
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+      "peak_heap_bytes": 132240,
+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "xlsx_large",
+      "category": "spreadsheet",
+      "description": "3 sheets, 5000 rows x 10 cols each (150k cells)",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 784216,
+      "output_bytes": 1844036,
+      "times_ns": [
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+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "ods_medium",
+      "category": "spreadsheet",
+      "description": "1 sheet, 2000 rows x 8 cols",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 71489,
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+        21794390,
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+      "allocations": 86513,
+      "allocated_bytes": 11707308,
+      "peak_heap_bytes": 2891155,
+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "detect_docx_magic",
+      "category": "detect",
+      "description": "Sniff DOCX from bytes without a hint",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 9299,
+      "output_bytes": 0,
+      "times_ns": [
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+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dca1365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Markkit Benchmark Report
+
+## System Information
+
+- **Moniker**: `vm-linux-x86_64`
+- **OS / Arch**: linux / x86_64
+- **CPUs**: 4
+- **markkit**: 0.1.1 (`30d3f30235bd`)
+- **Profile**: release
+- **Timestamp**: 1793057755
+- **Iterations**: 20 (warmup 3)
+- **Peak RSS**: 33.78 MiB
+
+## Summary
+
+12 cases, 274.160 ms total mean time per pass, 0 errors.
+
+Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. Throughput is input bytes over mean time.
+
+### HTML
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 315 B | 45.56 µs | 42.89 µs | ±6.73 µs | 21948 | 18.4 | 204 | 60.5 KiB | 27.3 KiB | - |
+| html_blog_post | 15.3 KiB | 11.7 KiB | 616.92 µs | 478.91 µs | ±366.32 µs | 1621 | 24.2 | 2187 | 572.5 KiB | 289.5 KiB | - |
+| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 235.0 KiB | 12.03 ms | 11.51 ms | ±1.66 ms | 83 | 24.3 | 42778 | 14.30 MiB | 7.23 MiB | - |
+| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 170.1 KiB | 13.46 ms | 13.47 ms | ±279.63 µs | 74 | 18.6 | 44149 | 14.11 MiB | 8.23 MiB | - |
+| html_boilerplate | 45.2 KiB | 191 B | 603.64 µs | 580.77 µs | ±79.63 µs | 1657 | 73.2 | 75 | 567.3 KiB | 304.6 KiB | - |
+| html_deep_nesting | 10.8 KiB | 5 B | 3.58 ms | 3.47 ms | ±328.25 µs | 279 | 2.9 | 42 | 288.0 KiB | 147.1 KiB | - |
+
+### DOCX
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| docx_memo | 1.4 KiB | 636 B | 86.44 µs | 81.24 µs | ±14.67 µs | 11569 | 15.8 | 733 | 248.4 KiB | 93.3 KiB | - |
+| docx_report | 9.1 KiB | 262.3 KiB | 36.61 ms | 35.75 ms | ±2.24 ms | 27 | 0.2 | 265311 | 33.47 MiB | 18.26 MiB | - |
+
+### Spreadsheet
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| xlsx_small | 2.8 KiB | 2.7 KiB | 298.79 µs | 282.77 µs | ±49.26 µs | 3347 | 9.1 | 1516 | 648.7 KiB | 129.1 KiB | - |
+| xlsx_large | 765.8 KiB | 1.76 MiB | 180.74 ms | 171.12 ms | ±21.28 ms | 6 | 4.1 | 722794 | 38.07 MiB | 22.65 MiB | - |
+| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 162.5 KiB | 26.08 ms | 22.53 ms | ±6.59 ms | 38 | 2.6 | 86513 | 11.16 MiB | 2.76 MiB | - |
+
+### Detect
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| detect_docx_magic | 9.1 KiB | 0 B | 2.18 µs | 2.16 µs | ±103 ns | 458400 | 4065.2 | 0 | 0 B | 0 B | - |

From b04c1d70547e6d9f61b0cf0517b61bbfb8403135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:37:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] fix(bench): avoid rustdoc HTML-tag lint in --moniker
 help

---
 crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs b/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
index ff9c7c0..afa64f7 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/src/main.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct Cli {
     #[arg(long, default_value = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/results"))]
     output_dir: PathBuf,
 
-    /// Machine label used in file names (default: <hostname>-<os>-<arch>)
+    /// Machine label used in file names (default: HOSTNAME-OS-ARCH)
     #[arg(long)]
     moniker: Option<String>,
 }

From 4edb6163e53bba81e1d846bbbb675b68762951b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:53:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] docs(bench): add performance summary to README; rerun
 baseline on latest main

---
 README.md                                     |  35 ++
 crates/markkit-bench/README.md                |  26 +-
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.json     | 522 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md       |  50 ++
 4 files changed, 623 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.json
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7754c02..4fa119d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -172,6 +172,41 @@ Office-document limits are configurable on the builder: `max_archive_entries`,
 `max_sheet_rows`, `max_sheet_cols`, `include_hidden_sheets`. URL fetching:
 `allow_private_networks`, `allow_host`, `max_redirects`.
 
+## Performance
+
+Measured with `just bench` (in-process, release build, 20 iterations after 3 warmup) on a
+4-CPU Linux x86_64 VM, markkit 0.1.1. Allocations and peak heap are per single extraction.
+Full report: [`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md); history in
+[`crates/markkit-bench/results/`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/).
+
+| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
+|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 49 µs | 20,365 | 17 MiB/s | 213 | 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 641 µs | 1,561 | 23 MiB/s | 2,427 | 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 13.0 ms | 77 | 22 MiB/s | 47,578 | 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 15.0 ms | 67 | 17 MiB/s | 50,349 | 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 706 µs | 1,417 | 63 MiB/s | 81 | 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 3.6 ms | 282 | 3 MiB/s | 442 | 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 87 µs | 11,508 | 16 MiB/s | 733 | 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 35.7 ms | 28 | 0.2 MiB/s | 265,791 | 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 291 µs | 3,435 | 9 MiB/s | 1,668 | 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 782,800 | 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.2 ms | 43 | 3 MiB/s | 92,515 | 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,141,227 | n/a | 0 | 0 B |
+
+Takeaways:
+
+- **HTML** extracts at 17–25 MiB/s; peak heap is ~25x the input size.
+- **Boilerplate-heavy pages are cheap**: scripts, styles and nav are dropped at ~60 MiB/s.
+- **Deep nesting is the slow outlier**: 1000 nested `<div>`s run at 3 MiB/s with few
+  allocations, so the cost is CPU in tree building, not memory.
+- **Office formats allocate most**: a 150k-cell XLSX takes 172 ms and ~5 allocations per cell;
+  a 9 KiB compressed DOCX peaks at 18.5 MiB of heap (~2000x its compressed size).
+- **Format detection** is effectively free (under 1 µs, no allocations).
+
+Timings on a shared VM are noisy (stddev up to ~70% on the smallest cases); allocation counts
+are deterministic and the better regression signal. Compare runs from the same machine only.
+
 ## Security
 
 Markkit treats every input as untrusted. HTML scripts, styles, forms, iframes and
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
index b08dc3d..2429931 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
@@ -30,13 +30,19 @@ Design and metric definitions: `knowledge/operations/performance-results.md`.
 ## Latest baseline (vm, linux x86_64, 4 CPUs, 2026-10-26)
 
 20 iterations, 3 warmup, release. Full report:
-[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793057755.md).
-
-| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
-|------|------:|-----:|------:|----------:|----------:|
-| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 45.6 µs | 21,948 | 204 | 27.3 KiB |
-| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 12.0 ms | 83 | 42,778 | 7.23 MiB |
-| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 13.5 ms | 74 | 44,149 | 8.23 MiB |
-| docx_report | 9.1 KiB (262 KiB out) | 36.6 ms | 27 | 265,311 | 18.26 MiB |
-| xlsx_large (150k cells) | 765.8 KiB | 180.7 ms | 6 | 722,794 | 22.65 MiB |
-| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 26.1 ms | 38 | 86,513 | 2.76 MiB |
+[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md).
+
+| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
+|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 49 µs | 20,365 | 17 MiB/s | 213 | 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 641 µs | 1,561 | 23 MiB/s | 2,427 | 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 13.0 ms | 77 | 22 MiB/s | 47,578 | 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 15.0 ms | 67 | 17 MiB/s | 50,349 | 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 706 µs | 1,417 | 63 MiB/s | 81 | 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 3.6 ms | 282 | 3 MiB/s | 442 | 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 87 µs | 11,508 | 16 MiB/s | 733 | 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 35.7 ms | 28 | 0.2 MiB/s | 265,791 | 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 291 µs | 3,435 | 9 MiB/s | 1,668 | 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 782,800 | 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.2 ms | 43 | 3 MiB/s | 92,515 | 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,141,227 | n/a | 0 | 0 B |
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.json b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f18462a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.json
@@ -0,0 +1,522 @@
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+    {
+      "name": "docx_memo",
+      "category": "docx",
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+      "category": "spreadsheet",
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+    {
+      "name": "xlsx_large",
+      "category": "spreadsheet",
+      "description": "3 sheets, 5000 rows x 10 cols each (150k cells)",
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+    {
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+      "description": "1 sheet, 2000 rows x 8 cols",
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+    },
+    {
+      "name": "detect_docx_magic",
+      "category": "detect",
+      "description": "Sniff DOCX from bytes without a hint",
+      "iterations": 20,
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+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46a109c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Markkit Benchmark Report
+
+## System Information
+
+- **Moniker**: `vm-linux-x86_64`
+- **OS / Arch**: linux / x86_64
+- **CPUs**: 4
+- **markkit**: 0.1.1 (`cde4ebc60a6f`)
+- **Profile**: release
+- **Timestamp**: 1793058767
+- **Iterations**: 20 (warmup 3)
+- **Peak RSS**: 37.71 MiB
+
+## Summary
+
+12 cases, 264.426 ms total mean time per pass, 0 errors.
+
+Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. Throughput is input bytes over mean time.
+
+### HTML
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 315 B | 49.10 µs | 44.80 µs | ±16.59 µs | 20365 | 17.1 | 213 | 62.4 KiB | 28.2 KiB | - |
+| html_blog_post | 15.3 KiB | 11.7 KiB | 640.61 µs | 517.72 µs | ±470.55 µs | 1561 | 23.4 | 2427 | 597.1 KiB | 304.2 KiB | - |
+| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 235.0 KiB | 13.04 ms | 11.83 ms | ±2.56 ms | 77 | 22.4 | 47578 | 14.80 MiB | 7.53 MiB | - |
+| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 170.1 KiB | 15.02 ms | 14.69 ms | ±1.18 ms | 67 | 16.7 | 50349 | 15.31 MiB | 8.61 MiB | - |
+| html_boilerplate | 45.2 KiB | 191 B | 705.87 µs | 588.97 µs | ±357.91 µs | 1417 | 62.6 | 81 | 567.8 KiB | 304.9 KiB | - |
+| html_deep_nesting | 10.8 KiB | 5 B | 3.55 ms | 3.48 ms | ±255.77 µs | 282 | 3.0 | 442 | 298.5 KiB | 147.1 KiB | - |
+
+### DOCX
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| docx_memo | 1.4 KiB | 636 B | 86.90 µs | 81.97 µs | ±16.96 µs | 11508 | 15.7 | 733 | 250.0 KiB | 93.3 KiB | - |
+| docx_report | 9.1 KiB | 262.3 KiB | 35.70 ms | 34.81 ms | ±2.63 ms | 28 | 0.2 | 265791 | 34.33 MiB | 18.50 MiB | - |
+
+### Spreadsheet
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| xlsx_small | 2.8 KiB | 2.7 KiB | 291.10 µs | 287.84 µs | ±14.55 µs | 3435 | 9.4 | 1668 | 669.8 KiB | 129.1 KiB | - |
+| xlsx_large | 765.8 KiB | 1.76 MiB | 172.19 ms | 167.61 ms | ±12.30 ms | 6 | 4.3 | 782800 | 50.77 MiB | 24.94 MiB | - |
+| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 162.5 KiB | 23.15 ms | 23.10 ms | ±336.87 µs | 43 | 2.9 | 92515 | 12.22 MiB | 3.00 MiB | - |
+
+### Detect
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| detect_docx_magic | 9.1 KiB | 0 B | 876 ns | 854 ns | ±99 ns | 1141227 | 10120.6 | 0 | 0 B | 0 B | - |

From 6a28b7fb39e56a6b2725880ecac907580b60f040 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:09:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 05/11] chore(knowledge): restore page-metadata log entry lost
 in merge

---
 knowledge/log.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index fcf5344..0a7d1a0 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 * **Benchmarks**: `markkit-bench` is no longer a stub. It measures latency, ops/s, throughput and per-op heap allocations (count, bytes, peak) plus process peak RSS over a generated corpus, and `just bench` saves JSON + Markdown runs to `crates/markkit-bench/results/`, like bashkit. Criterion moves to `just bench-criterion`. See [Performance Results](operations/performance-results.md).
 * **IR provenance**: optional per-block `Source` (HTML XPath, DOCX body index, sheet + A1 range, page) behind `track_sources`; `parse_document` / `ParsedDocument` expose the IR for every format. XPath sibling indexes are cached per parent (`html_security::source_tracking_many_siblings_is_linear`). See [IR Specification](foundations/ir.md) and [Markkit Architecture](foundations/architecture.md).* **Page metadata**: HTML `extract_document` now fills `title` and a new `Extraction::metadata` (description, author, published, language, canonical URL, site name, image) from `<meta>`, Open Graph, `<link rel=canonical>` and bounded JSON-LD. Precedence table in [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md); scheme filter and JSON-LD bounds in [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T1 / T2f.
+* **Page metadata**: HTML `extract_document` now fills `title` and a new `Extraction::metadata` (description, author, published, language, canonical URL, site name, image) from `<meta>`, Open Graph, `<link rel=canonical>` and bounded JSON-LD. Precedence table in [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md); scheme filter and JSON-LD bounds in [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T1 / T2f.
 * **IR v2**: footnotes, definition lists, task lists, figures, table alignment and spans; `Document.ir_version` (`IR_VERSION = 2`), `#[non_exhaustive]` IR types, `Node::is_block`/`is_inline`. HTML maps GitHub/Pandoc footnotes, `<dl>`, checkbox items, captioned figures, `colspan`/`rowspan`/alignment and row-header `<th>`. New threat T2e and invariant S13 (span grid budget, footnote label sanitizing). See [IR Specification](foundations/ir.md), [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md), [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md).
 * **Agent tool**: new [Tool Contract](integrations/tool-contract.md) concept in a new `integrations/` domain. `MarkkitTool` (opt-in `tool` feature) follows the Everruns toolkit-library contract; tool arguments are a new untrusted surface in the [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md).
 * **URL fetch hardening**: T3 SSRF is mitigated. `extract_url` blocks non-public addresses by default (URL, resolver and redirect layers), enforces scheme, allowlist, redirect, body and time limits; new invariant S12 and `url_security` tests. Proxy-resolved names are the documented residual. See [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) and [Security Model](security/security-model.md).

From 4a00f9c2e203e9186975d2f05f53b89b95961fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:40:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 06/11] fix(html): make deeply nested input linear and stop
 nested-table row duplication

html5ever's tree builder is quadratic in nesting depth: 687 KiB of nested
divs took 12.6 s and 292 KiB of unclosed nested tables ran past the 60 s
timeout. A pre-scan (html::nesting::cap_nesting) now drops tags nested past
max_nesting_depth + 8 before html5ever runs, keeping text.

Tables took rows via descendant queries, copying nested-table rows into
every enclosing table (4x output per level). Rows now come from direct
structure only.

Text flattened at max_nesting_depth leaked script/style/template bodies;
flat_text skips non-content elements. New invariant S17.
---
 CHANGELOG.md                          |   8 +
 crates/markkit/src/html/mod.rs        |   1 +
 crates/markkit/src/html/nesting.rs    | 389 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs     | 100 +++++--
 crates/markkit/tests/html_security.rs |  77 +++++
 knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md  |  22 +-
 knowledge/log.md                      |   1 +
 knowledge/security/threat-model.md    |  10 +
 8 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit/src/html/nesting.rs

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8cf3d53..51786a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- HTML: deeply nested input no longer costs quadratic time. 687 KiB of nested `<div>`s took
+  12.6 s and 292 KiB of unclosed nested tables ran past the 60 s timeout; tags nested past
+  `max_nesting_depth` are now dropped (text kept) before html5ever parses, so both take
+  milliseconds.
+- HTML: rows of nested tables are no longer copied into every enclosing table (output grew 4x
+  per nesting level).
+- HTML: text flattened past `max_nesting_depth` no longer includes `<script>`, `<style>`,
+  `<template>` and other non-content element bodies.
 - Spreadsheets: a sheet with a single row now renders that row as data under Excel column letters
   (`| A | B |`) instead of as a header with no rows.
 - Spreadsheets: `Extraction.title` is filled from document properties (XLSX `docProps/core.xml`,
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/html/mod.rs b/crates/markkit/src/html/mod.rs
index 945aebc..5115fb4 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/html/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/html/mod.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 //! Converts HTML input into the canonical IR.
 
 mod metadata;
+mod nesting;
 mod parser;
 mod readability;
 mod urls;
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/html/nesting.rs b/crates/markkit/src/html/nesting.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61c6067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/html/nesting.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,389 @@
+//! Nesting cap applied to raw HTML before html5ever sees it.
+//!
+//! Decisions:
+//! - html5ever's tree builder is quadratic in nesting depth: most start tags
+//!   scan the stack of open elements ("has a `p` in button scope", table
+//!   context resets), so N nested `<div>`s cost O(N²). Measured before this
+//!   cap: 687 KiB of nested divs took 12.6 s, 292 KiB of nested tables passed
+//!   the 60 s timeout, and html5ever cannot be interrupted. THREAT[T2c].
+//! - The walker flattens everything deeper than `max_nesting_depth` to text
+//!   anyway, so tags past the cap carry no structure we keep. This pass drops
+//!   start tags that would open past `cap` (and as many following end tags),
+//!   keeping all text. The tree builder's stack then stays near `cap`, and
+//!   cost is O(input × cap): linear in input.
+//! - Approximate HTML tokenizing, single pass, bounded state: comments,
+//!   `<!...>`/`<?...>`, quoted attribute values and raw-text elements
+//!   (`script`, `style`, ...) are skipped so `<` inside them never counts.
+//!   Void elements and elements with optional end tags (`p`, `li`, `td`, ...)
+//!   do not count as nesting, except table structure, which closes implicitly
+//!   the way the HTML spec does. `/>` self-closes only inside `svg`/`math`.
+//!   Under-counting only lets more depth through (bounded by `cap` per
+//!   counted level); the input is returned unchanged unless the cap is hit.
+//! - The stack holds at most `cap` names, so end-tag matching is O(cap).
+
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+
+/// Elements whose content never reaches the output (the walker skips them).
+pub(crate) const NON_CONTENT: &[&str] = &[
+    "script", "style", "noscript", "iframe", "object", "embed", "form", "input", "button",
+    "select", "textarea", "svg", "canvas", "video", "audio", "source", "track", "map", "area",
+    "template",
+];
+
+const FOREIGN: &[&str] = &["svg", "math"];
+
+/// Elements whose content is raw text up to their end tag.
+const RAW_TEXT: &[&str] = &[
+    "script", "style", "textarea", "title", "xmp", "iframe", "noembed", "noframes", "noscript",
+];
+
+/// Elements that never have content.
+const VOID: &[&str] = &[
+    "area", "base", "basefont", "bgsound", "br", "col", "embed", "frame", "hr", "image", "img",
+    "input", "keygen", "link", "meta", "param", "source", "track", "wbr",
+];
+
+/// Optional end tag, cannot nest in itself: not counted.
+const UNCOUNTED: &[&str] = &[
+    "p", "li", "dt", "dd", "option", "optgroup", "rb", "rt", "rtc", "rp", "html", "head", "body",
+    "colgroup", "caption",
+];
+
+/// Drop start tags that would nest deeper than `cap` (and matching end tags).
+/// Returns the input unchanged when the cap is never reached.
+pub(crate) fn cap_nesting(html: &str, cap: usize) -> Cow<'_, str> {
+    let b = html.as_bytes();
+    let mut stack: Vec<&[u8]> = Vec::new();
+    let mut foreign = 0usize; // open svg/math elements on the stack
+    let mut overflow = 0usize; // dropped start tags awaiting an end tag
+    let mut out: Option<String> = None;
+    let mut copied = 0usize; // input[..copied] already in `out`
+    let mut i = 0usize;
+
+    let drop_range = |out: &mut Option<String>, copied: &mut usize, start: usize, end: usize| {
+        let o = out.get_or_insert_with(|| String::with_capacity(html.len()));
+        o.push_str(&html[*copied..start]);
+        *copied = end;
+    };
+
+    while let Some(off) = memchr(b'<', &b[i..]) {
+        let lt = i + off;
+        let rest = &b[lt + 1..];
+        if rest.starts_with(b"!--") {
+            i = find(b, lt + 4, b"-->").map_or(b.len(), |p| p + 3);
+            continue;
+        }
+        if matches!(rest.first(), Some(b'!' | b'?')) {
+            i = memchr(b'>', &b[lt..]).map_or(b.len(), |p| lt + p + 1);
+            continue;
+        }
+        let (is_end, name_start) = match rest.first() {
+            Some(b'/') => (true, lt + 2),
+            _ => (false, lt + 1),
+        };
+        if !b.get(name_start).is_some_and(u8::is_ascii_alphabetic) {
+            i = lt + 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let name_end = name_start
+            + b[name_start..]
+                .iter()
+                .position(|c| c.is_ascii_whitespace() || *c == b'/' || *c == b'>')
+                .unwrap_or(b.len() - name_start);
+        let name = &b[name_start..name_end];
+        let (end, self_closing) = tag_end(b, name_end);
+        i = end;
+
+        if is_end {
+            let counted = !one_of(name, VOID) && !one_of(name, UNCOUNTED);
+            if overflow > 0 {
+                // Inside the dropped region every end tag goes; only counted
+                // ones pair with a dropped start tag.
+                overflow -= usize::from(counted);
+                drop_range(&mut out, &mut copied, lt, end);
+            } else if let Some(pos) = stack.iter().rposition(|n| n.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name)) {
+                foreign -= stack[pos..].iter().filter(|n| one_of(n, FOREIGN)).count();
+                stack.truncate(pos);
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        if one_of(name, RAW_TEXT) && foreign == 0 {
+            // Skip the content and the end tag itself: it must reach
+            // html5ever even while dropping, or the raw text never ends.
+            i = find_end_tag(b, i, name).map_or(b.len(), |p| tag_end(b, p + 2 + name.len()).0);
+            continue;
+        }
+        if name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"plaintext") && foreign == 0 {
+            break;
+        }
+        let void = one_of(name, VOID) || (self_closing && (foreign > 0 || one_of(name, FOREIGN)));
+        let uncounted = void || one_of(name, UNCOUNTED);
+        if overflow == 0 {
+            if uncounted {
+                continue;
+            }
+            // Table structure closes implicitly (spec "clear the stack back to
+            // a table / row context"); pop to the enclosing level first.
+            let closes: &[&str] = if one_of(name, &["tbody", "thead", "tfoot"]) {
+                &["tbody", "thead", "tfoot", "tr", "td", "th"]
+            } else if one_of(name, &["tr"]) {
+                &["tr", "td", "th"]
+            } else if one_of(name, &["td", "th"]) {
+                &["td", "th"]
+            } else {
+                &[]
+            };
+            while stack.last().is_some_and(|n| one_of(n, closes)) {
+                stack.pop();
+            }
+        }
+        if overflow > 0 || stack.len() >= cap {
+            // Past the cap every start tag goes (the walker would flatten it
+            // anyway), so html5ever's stack stays at the cap.
+            let mut drop_to = end;
+            if !void && one_of(name, NON_CONTENT) {
+                // Dropping only the tag would expose content the walker
+                // skips; drop the whole subtree instead (same output).
+                drop_to = skip_subtree(b, end, name);
+                i = drop_to;
+            } else if !uncounted {
+                overflow += 1;
+            }
+            drop_range(&mut out, &mut copied, lt, drop_to);
+            continue;
+        }
+        if one_of(name, FOREIGN) {
+            foreign += 1;
+        }
+        stack.push(name);
+    }
+
+    match out {
+        None => Cow::Borrowed(html),
+        Some(mut o) => {
+            o.push_str(&html[copied..]);
+            Cow::Owned(o)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Index just past the `>` closing a tag whose attributes start at `from`,
+/// skipping quoted values; and whether it ends in `/>`.
+fn tag_end(b: &[u8], from: usize) -> (usize, bool) {
+    let mut i = from;
+    let mut quote = None;
+    let mut prev = 0u8;
+    while i < b.len() {
+        let c = b[i];
+        match quote {
+            Some(q) if c == q => quote = None,
+            Some(_) => {}
+            None if c == b'"' || c == b'\'' => quote = Some(c),
+            None if c == b'>' => return (i + 1, prev == b'/'),
+            None => {}
+        }
+        if !c.is_ascii_whitespace() {
+            prev = c;
+        }
+        i += 1;
+    }
+    (b.len(), false)
+}
+
+/// Index past the end tag matching an open `name` element whose content
+/// starts at `from`, counting same-name nesting; input end if unclosed.
+fn skip_subtree(b: &[u8], from: usize, name: &[u8]) -> usize {
+    let mut depth = 1usize;
+    let mut i = from;
+    while let Some(off) = memchr(b'<', &b[i..]) {
+        let lt = i + off;
+        let (is_end, start) = match b.get(lt + 1) {
+            Some(b'/') => (true, lt + 2),
+            _ => (false, lt + 1),
+        };
+        let after = start + name.len();
+        let matches = b.len() > after
+            && b[start..after].eq_ignore_ascii_case(name)
+            && (b[after].is_ascii_whitespace() || b[after] == b'/' || b[after] == b'>');
+        if !matches {
+            i = lt + 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        let (end, self_closing) = tag_end(b, after);
+        i = end;
+        if is_end {
+            depth -= 1;
+            if depth == 0 {
+                return end;
+            }
+        } else if !self_closing {
+            depth += 1;
+        }
+    }
+    b.len()
+}
+
+/// Start of `</name` (ASCII case-insensitive) at or after `from`.
+fn find_end_tag(b: &[u8], from: usize, name: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    let mut i = from;
+    while let Some(off) = memchr(b'<', &b[i..]) {
+        let p = i + off;
+        let tail = &b[p + 1..];
+        if tail.first() == Some(&b'/')
+            && tail.len() > name.len()
+            && tail[1..=name.len()].eq_ignore_ascii_case(name)
+        {
+            return Some(p);
+        }
+        i = p + 1;
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+/// ASCII case-insensitive membership; no allocation per tag.
+fn one_of(name: &[u8], list: &[&str]) -> bool {
+    list.iter().any(|n| n.as_bytes().eq_ignore_ascii_case(name))
+}
+
+fn find(b: &[u8], from: usize, needle: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    b.get(from..)?
+        .windows(needle.len())
+        .position(|w| w == needle)
+        .map(|p| from + p)
+}
+
+fn memchr(c: u8, b: &[u8]) -> Option<usize> {
+    b.iter().position(|&x| x == c)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn depth_of(html: &str) -> usize {
+        // Max element depth of html5ever's DOM, iteratively.
+        let dom = scraper::Html::parse_document(html);
+        let mut max = 0;
+        let mut stack = vec![(dom.tree.root(), 0usize)];
+        while let Some((n, d)) = stack.pop() {
+            max = max.max(d);
+            stack.extend(n.children().map(|c| (c, d + 1)));
+        }
+        max
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn shallow_input_is_borrowed_unchanged() {
+        let html = "<html><body><div><p>a<p>b<ul><li>x<li>y</ul><table><tr><td>1<td>2<tr><td>3</table></div></body></html>";
+        assert!(matches!(cap_nesting(html, 8), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn deep_divs_are_capped_and_text_kept() {
+        let html = format!("{}deep text{}", "<div>".repeat(5000), "</div>".repeat(5000));
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 100);
+        assert!(capped.contains("deep text"));
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("<div>").count(), 100);
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("</div>").count(), 100);
+        assert!(depth_of(&capped) <= 105);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unclosed_divs_are_capped() {
+        let html = "<div>x".repeat(3000);
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 50);
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("<div>").count(), 50);
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches('x').count(), 3000);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn nested_tables_are_capped() {
+        let html = "<table><tr><td>".repeat(3000);
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 60);
+        assert!(depth_of(&capped) < 300);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn self_closing_div_still_counts_outside_svg() {
+        // html5ever opens `<div/>`; only foreign content self-closes.
+        let html = "<div/>".repeat(1000);
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 10);
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("<div/>").count(), 10);
+        let svg = format!("<svg>{}</svg>", "<g/>".repeat(1000));
+        assert!(matches!(cap_nesting(&svg, 10), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn markup_in_comments_attributes_and_raw_text_is_ignored() {
+        let divs = "<div>".repeat(100);
+        let html = format!(
+            "<!-- {divs} --><a title='{divs}' href=\"x>y\">a</a><script>{divs}</script><style>{divs}</style><textarea>{divs}</TEXTAREA>"
+        );
+        assert!(matches!(cap_nesting(&html, 5), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn optional_end_tags_and_voids_do_not_count() {
+        let html = "<p>a<li>b<br><img src=x><td>c<option>d".repeat(1000);
+        assert!(matches!(cap_nesting(&html, 5), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn implied_close_by_ancestor_end_tag() {
+        // `</div>` closes the unclosed spans inside it; depth must not drift.
+        let html = "<div><span><b>x</div>".repeat(1000);
+        assert!(matches!(cap_nesting(&html, 10), Cow::Borrowed(_)));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn raw_text_end_tags_survive_while_dropping() {
+        // Dropping `</script>` would turn the rest of the page into script.
+        let html = format!(
+            "{}<script>x()</script><style>.a{{}}</style><p>after</p>{}",
+            "<div>".repeat(50),
+            "</div>".repeat(50)
+        );
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 10);
+        assert!(capped.contains("<script>x()</script><style>.a{}</style>"));
+        assert!(capped.contains("after"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn uncounted_end_tags_do_not_consume_overflow() {
+        let html = format!(
+            "{}<p>a</p><li>b</li>{}",
+            "<div>".repeat(20),
+            "</div>".repeat(20)
+        );
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 10);
+        // Past the cap the p/li tags go too, their text stays, and their end
+        // tags do not close dropped divs.
+        assert!(capped.contains("ab"));
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("<div>").count(), 10);
+        assert_eq!(capped.matches("</div>").count(), 10);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn non_content_past_the_cap_is_dropped_whole() {
+        let html = format!(
+            "{}<template>tpl<template>in</template></template><form><b>f</b></form><p>after</p>",
+            "<div>".repeat(20)
+        );
+        let capped = cap_nesting(&html, 10);
+        assert!(!capped.contains("tpl") && !capped.contains("in<") && !capped.contains("f</b>"));
+        assert!(capped.contains("after"));
+        let objects = "<object>".repeat(100_000) + "x";
+        assert!(!cap_nesting(&objects, 10).contains('x'));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn malformed_tails_do_not_panic() {
+        for s in [
+            "<", "</", "<div", "<div a='", "<!--", "<!", "<script>", "</>", "<1>", "<\u{e9}>",
+        ] {
+            let _ = cap_nesting(s, 1);
+            let _ = cap_nesting(&format!("<div>{s}"), 0);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs b/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
index 68f5b46..d1ee896 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
@@ -33,8 +33,14 @@ use crate::limits::Budget;
 use url::Url;
 
 use super::metadata::PageInfo;
+use super::nesting::{self, NON_CONTENT};
 use super::{readability, urls};
 
+/// Extra levels kept above `max_nesting_depth` before raw tags are dropped:
+/// the walker flattens there anyway, the slack covers `html`/`body` and
+/// implied elements the pre-scan does not count.
+const NESTING_SLACK: usize = 8;
+
 /// HTML-spec clamps for table spans.
 const MAX_COLSPAN: u32 = 1000;
 const MAX_ROWSPAN: u32 = 65534;
@@ -97,12 +103,17 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
 
     /// Parse an HTML string into a [`Document`].
     pub fn parse(&self, html: &str) -> Result<Document, Error> {
-        self.parse_dom(&Html::parse_document(html))
+        self.parse_dom(&self.parse_html5ever(html))
+    }
+
+    /// html5ever parse of `html` with nesting capped first (see `nesting`).
+    fn parse_html5ever(&self, html: &str) -> Html {
+        Html::parse_document(&nesting::cap_nesting(html, self.max_depth + NESTING_SLACK))
     }
 
     /// Parse an HTML string into a [`Document`] plus page title and metadata.
     pub(crate) fn parse_page(&self, html: &str) -> Result<(Document, PageInfo), Error> {
-        let dom = Html::parse_document(html);
+        let dom = self.parse_html5ever(html);
         let this = self.for_document(&dom);
         Ok((
             this.convert_dom(&dom)?,
@@ -243,7 +254,7 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
         }
         if depth >= self.max_depth {
             // At max depth, just extract text
-            let text: String = parent.text().collect();
+            let text = flat_text(parent);
             let trimmed = text.trim();
             if !trimmed.is_empty() {
                 out.push(Node::Text(trimmed.to_string()));
@@ -313,7 +324,7 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
             return None;
         }
         if depth >= self.max_depth {
-            let text: String = el.text().collect();
+            let text = flat_text(el);
             let trimmed = text.trim();
             if trimmed.is_empty() {
                 return None;
@@ -505,9 +516,7 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
             "hr" => Some(Node::ThematicBreak),
 
             // Skip non-content elements
-            "script" | "style" | "noscript" | "iframe" | "object" | "embed" | "form" | "input"
-            | "button" | "select" | "textarea" | "svg" | "canvas" | "video" | "audio"
-            | "source" | "track" | "map" | "area" => None,
+            name if NON_CONTENT.contains(&name) => None,
 
             // Unknown element: try to extract inline content
             _ => {
@@ -746,7 +755,7 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
     /// `<a>` that is a footnote reference: record target and build the node.
     fn footnote_reference(&self, el: scraper::ElementRef<'_>) -> Option<Node> {
         let target = el.value().attr("href")?.strip_prefix('#')?;
-        let text: String = el.text().collect();
+        let text = flat_text(el);
         let text = text
             .trim()
             .trim_start_matches('[')
@@ -770,7 +779,7 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
             return nodes;
         }
         if depth >= self.max_depth {
-            let text: String = el.text().collect();
+            let text = flat_text(el);
             let trimmed = text.trim();
             if !trimmed.is_empty() {
                 nodes.push(Node::Text(trimmed.to_string()));
@@ -847,17 +856,15 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
         exclude: &[Selector],
         depth: usize,
     ) -> Option<Node> {
-        let thead_sel = Selector::parse("thead").unwrap();
-        let tbody_sel = Selector::parse("tbody").unwrap();
-        let tr_sel = Selector::parse("tr").unwrap();
-
         let mut headers: Vec<TableCell> = Vec::new();
         let mut alignments: Vec<Alignment> = Vec::new();
         let mut rows: Vec<Vec<TableCell>> = Vec::new();
 
-        if let Some(thead) = table_el.select(&thead_sel).next()
-            && let Some(tr) = thead.select(&tr_sel).next()
-        {
+        // Direct structure only: a descendant query would also pick up the
+        // rows of nested tables, duplicating them into every enclosing table
+        // (output and work grew 4x per nesting level). THREAT[T2c].
+        let (head_row, body_rows) = table_rows(table_el);
+        if let Some(tr) = head_row {
             let ths = row_cells(tr, &["th", "td"]);
             alignments = column_alignments(&ths);
             headers = ths
@@ -866,13 +873,6 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
                 .collect();
         }
 
-        let body_rows: Vec<scraper::ElementRef<'_>> =
-            if let Some(tbody) = table_el.select(&tbody_sel).next() {
-                tbody.select(&tr_sel).collect()
-            } else {
-                table_el.select(&tr_sel).collect()
-            };
-
         for tr in body_rows {
             let row = row_cells(tr, &["td", "th"]);
             // A leading all-<th> row is the header.
@@ -933,6 +933,60 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
 }
 
 /// Direct `th`/`td` children of a row (nested tables' cells excluded).
+/// Text of a subtree flattened at `max_nesting_depth`, without the content of
+/// [`NON_CONTENT`] elements (`el.text()` leaked `<script>`/`<style>` bodies).
+/// Iterative, so depth costs no stack.
+fn flat_text(el: scraper::ElementRef<'_>) -> String {
+    let mut out = String::new();
+    let mut skipping = 0usize;
+    for edge in el.traverse() {
+        match edge {
+            ego_tree::iter::Edge::Open(n) => match n.value() {
+                HtmlNode::Element(e) if skipping > 0 || NON_CONTENT.contains(&e.name()) => {
+                    skipping += 1;
+                }
+                HtmlNode::Text(t) if skipping == 0 => out.push_str(t),
+                _ => {}
+            },
+            ego_tree::iter::Edge::Close(n) => {
+                if skipping > 0 && n.value().is_element() {
+                    skipping -= 1;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+/// First row of the first direct `<thead>`, and the body rows: `<tr>`
+/// children of the table and of its direct `<tbody>` sections, in order.
+fn table_rows<'a>(
+    table: scraper::ElementRef<'a>,
+) -> (
+    Option<scraper::ElementRef<'a>>,
+    Vec<scraper::ElementRef<'a>>,
+) {
+    let head = child_elements(table, "thead").find_map(|thead| child_elements(thead, "tr").next());
+    let mut body = Vec::new();
+    for child in table.children().filter_map(scraper::ElementRef::wrap) {
+        match child.value().name() {
+            "tbody" => body.extend(child_elements(child, "tr")),
+            "tr" => body.push(child),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+    (head, body)
+}
+
+fn child_elements<'a>(
+    el: scraper::ElementRef<'a>,
+    name: &'static str,
+) -> impl Iterator<Item = scraper::ElementRef<'a>> {
+    el.children()
+        .filter_map(scraper::ElementRef::wrap)
+        .filter(move |c| c.value().name() == name)
+}
+
 fn row_cells<'a>(tr: scraper::ElementRef<'a>, names: &[&str]) -> Vec<scraper::ElementRef<'a>> {
     tr.children()
         .filter_map(scraper::ElementRef::wrap)
diff --git a/crates/markkit/tests/html_security.rs b/crates/markkit/tests/html_security.rs
index af22b21..a0d1d37 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/tests/html_security.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/tests/html_security.rs
@@ -84,6 +84,83 @@ fn deeply_nested_elements() {
     assert!(md.contains("Deep"));
 }
 
+// THREAT[T2c]: html5ever's tree builder is quadratic in nesting depth; the
+// pre-scan nesting cap keeps it linear. Before the cap these took 12.6 s and
+// >60 s in release; a generous budget catches a regression without flaking.
+fn assert_fast(html: &str, what: &str) {
+    let m = Markkit::builder()
+        .timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(20))
+        .build();
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    m.extract_html_sync(html)
+        .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{what}: {e}"));
+    assert!(
+        start.elapsed() < std::time::Duration::from_secs(20),
+        "{what} took {:?}",
+        start.elapsed()
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn deep_div_nesting_is_linear() {
+    let n = 64_000;
+    let html = format!("{}<p>Deep</p>{}", "<div>".repeat(n), "</div>".repeat(n));
+    assert_fast(&html, "64k nested divs");
+    assert!(convert(&html).contains("Deep"));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn deep_unclosed_table_nesting_is_linear() {
+    assert_fast(&"<table><tr><td>".repeat(20_000), "20k nested tables");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn nested_table_rows_are_not_duplicated() {
+    // Rows of an inner table belong to the inner table only. Selecting rows
+    // with a descendant query duplicated them into every enclosing table:
+    // output (and work) grew 4x per nesting level.
+    let html = "<table><tr><td>".repeat(4) + "needle";
+    let md = convert(&html);
+    assert_eq!(md.matches("needle").count(), 1, "{md}");
+    let two = convert(
+        "<table><tr><td>outer<table><tr><td>inner1</td></tr><tr><td>inner2</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>",
+    );
+    assert_eq!(two.matches("inner1").count(), 1, "{two}");
+    assert_eq!(two.matches("inner2").count(), 1, "{two}");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn deep_nested_tables_output_is_bounded() {
+    let html = "<table><tr><td>".repeat(30) + "x";
+    let md = convert(&html);
+    assert!(md.len() < 64 * 1024, "output {} bytes", md.len());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn script_and_style_bodies_do_not_leak_past_max_depth() {
+    // Past max_nesting_depth the subtree is flattened to text; that text must
+    // still skip non-content elements (S1/S2/S7).
+    for depth in [300, 5000] {
+        let html = format!(
+            "{}<p>ok</p><script>SECRET_JS()</script><style>.x{{color:red}}</style><template>tpl</template><p>after</p>{}",
+            "<div>".repeat(depth),
+            "</div>".repeat(depth)
+        );
+        let md = convert(&html);
+        assert!(md.contains("ok") && md.contains("after"), "{depth}: {md}");
+        for bad in [
+            "SECRET_JS",
+            "color:red",
+            "tpl",
+            "<style",
+            "<script",
+            "</div>",
+        ] {
+            assert!(!md.contains(bad), "{depth}: {bad} leaked: {md}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn very_long_text_node() {
     let text = "a".repeat(100_000);
diff --git a/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md b/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
index 3788639..5ae1ea7 100644
--- a/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
+++ b/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
@@ -134,12 +134,26 @@ Trimming at render time:
 Limit: `limits.max_nesting_depth` (default 256, clamped to `HARD_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH` = 512)
 
 Behavior at depth limit:
-- `convert_children`: extracts all descendant text via `.text().collect()`, trims, emits as single `Text` node
-- `convert_element`: same -- flattens subtree to trimmed text
-- `collect_inline`: same -- flattens subtree to trimmed text
+- `convert_children`: flattens the subtree to its text (`flat_text`: iterative, skips the
+  content of non-content elements such as `script`, `style`, `template`, `form`), trims,
+  emits a single `Text` node
+- `convert_element`, `collect_inline`: same
 - Empty text at depth limit -> elided
 
-Prevents stack overflow on adversarial nesting. Tested with 1000 nested `<div>` elements.
+Before html5ever runs, `html::nesting::cap_nesting` pre-scans the raw HTML and drops start
+tags (and paired end tags) that would nest deeper than `max_nesting_depth + 8`, keeping their
+text; non-content elements past the cap are dropped whole. html5ever's tree builder is
+quadratic in depth (most start tags scan the open-element stack), so this keeps parsing
+linear. Comments, quoted attributes and raw-text elements are skipped; void and optional-end
+elements (`p`, `li`, `td`, ...) are not counted; table parts close implicitly. Input that
+never reaches the cap is passed through unchanged (no copy).
+
+Tables use direct structure only: header = first `<tr>` of the first direct `<thead>`; body
+= direct `<tr>` children and `<tr>` children of direct `<tbody>` sections. Rows of nested
+tables stay in the nested table.
+
+Prevents stack overflow and super-linear time on adversarial nesting. Tested with 64 000
+nested `<div>`s, 20 000 unclosed nested tables, and script/style past the limit.
 
 ## Exclude Selector Defaults
 
diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index 293615e..cfa9294 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## 2026-10-27
 
+* **Nesting cost**: HTML parsing was quadratic in nesting depth (html5ever) and exponential in nested tables (descendant row selection duplicated inner rows); text flattened past `max_nesting_depth` leaked `<script>`/`<style>` bodies. Fixed with a pre-scan nesting cap, direct-structure table rows and a non-content-aware flattener; new invariant S17. Found by `markkit-bench`. See [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T2c.
 * **Spreadsheet follow-ups (#11)**: single-row sheets render as data under column letters; XLSX/ODS/XLS titles come from document properties; XLSB content type no longer maps to XLSX; XLSX without `_rels/.rels` parses; trailing-newline output documented as intended; release profile switched to `panic = "unwind"` so `catch_unwind` is effective in markkit's own binaries. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T6c.
 
 ## 2026-10-26
diff --git a/knowledge/security/threat-model.md b/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
index 6113b8f..dc2d909 100644
--- a/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
+++ b/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ All limits live in one `Limits` struct (`crates/markkit/src/limits.rs`,
   conversion, spreadsheet cell loops and renderer. html5ever tokenizing and calamine
   sheet decoding are not interruptible; they are linear in the (capped) input and the
   deadline is checked right after them
+- html5ever's tree builder is quadratic in nesting depth (687 KiB of nested `<div>`s took
+  12.6 s, 292 KiB of nested tables passed 60 s, uninterruptibly). `html::nesting::cap_nesting`
+  drops tags past `max_nesting_depth + 8` before html5ever runs, so parse cost is
+  O(input x cap); 45 MiB of hostile nesting now parses in under 0.5 s
+- Nested tables: rows are taken from the table's direct structure only. A descendant query
+  copied inner rows into every enclosing table, growing output and work 4x per level
+- Tests: `html_security::deep_div_nesting_is_linear`, `deep_unclosed_table_nesting_is_linear`,
+  `nested_table_rows_are_not_duplicated`, `deep_nested_tables_output_is_bounded`,
+  `html::nesting::tests::*`
 - `max_nodes` (default 5 000 000) caps HTML DOM nodes and DOCX XML nodes (summed over parts)
 - wasm32-unknown-unknown has no clock, so `timeout` is not enforced in `@everruns/markkit-wasm`;
   hosts bound time themselves (e.g. terminate the Worker). All other limits apply
@@ -346,6 +355,7 @@ process, or smuggling content past a human reviewer.
 | S14 | Returned Markdown never exceeds `max_output_size` | `limits::*output_cap*` |
 | S15 | No configuration of `max_nesting_depth` can overflow the stack | `limits::*hard_ceiling_survives_small_stack` |
 | S16 | Extraction stops with `ResourceLimit` once `timeout` passes (checked at least after each non-interruptible third-party step) | `limits::*zero_timeout_rejects`, `limits::tests::*` |
+| S17 | HTML parse time is linear in input whatever the nesting; flattened deep subtrees never emit non-content (script/style/template) text | `html_security::deep_*_is_linear`, `script_and_style_bodies_do_not_leak_past_max_depth` |
 
 ## See also
 

From 787e8d5f8da219ad719c9cc154049d423908f94b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:57:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 07/11] perf(docx): stream body blocks and compact the XML tree

docx_report: peak heap 18.5 MiB -> 3.9 MiB, allocations 265k -> 137k.
Body blocks are converted while document.xml is parsed and freed after;
XML names and attribute values are interned; attribute and child lists
are exact-size; run text stays borrowed until it becomes IR. Markdown
escaping and output normalization skip per-run/per-line allocations,
which helps every format.
---
 CHANGELOG.md                              |   4 +
 crates/markkit/src/archive.rs             |  15 +-
 crates/markkit/src/docx.rs                | 279 +++++++++++----------
 crates/markkit/src/render/escape.rs       |  80 ++++++
 crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs     |  28 +--
 crates/markkit/src/xml.rs                 | 286 +++++++++++++++++-----
 crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs |  29 +++
 knowledge/formats/format-support.md       |   5 +-
 knowledge/log.md                          |   1 +
 knowledge/security/threat-model.md        |   3 +-
 10 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f4d2fe..b0fb816 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ### Changed
 
+- DOCX uses far less memory: body blocks are converted while `document.xml` is parsed and freed
+  right after, and the XML tree is compact (interned names and values, exact-size lists). A 1.5 MB
+  `document.xml` peaks at 3.9 MiB instead of 18.5 MiB, with half the allocations. Markdown
+  rendering allocates less for every format.
 - **Breaking**: limit fields moved from `MarkkitBuilder` to `MarkkitBuilder::limits`
   (`config().max_input_size` → `config().limits.max_input_size`); `max_processing_secs` field is
   now `limits.timeout: Duration`. Builder setters are unchanged, plus new `timeout`,
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/archive.rs b/crates/markkit/src/archive.rs
index 3166a02..10616fb 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/archive.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/archive.rs
@@ -97,10 +97,16 @@ impl<'a> ZipGuard<'a> {
                 }
             }
         };
-        let mut buf = Vec::new();
-        let n = {
+        let (n, buf) = {
             let mut entry = self.archive.by_index(index)?;
-            copy_capped(&mut entry, self.max_entry, name, &mut buf)?
+            // The declared size is only a capacity hint (saves growth copies and
+            // slack); it is clamped, and the real limit is still `copy_capped`.
+            let hint = entry.size().min(self.max_entry).min(MAX_SIZE_HINT);
+            let mut buf = Vec::with_capacity(usize::try_from(hint).unwrap_or(0));
+            (
+                copy_capped(&mut entry, self.max_entry, name, &mut buf)?,
+                buf,
+            )
         };
         self.add_total(n)?;
         Ok(Some(buf))
@@ -118,6 +124,9 @@ impl<'a> ZipGuard<'a> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Largest capacity reserved up front from a (lying) declared entry size.
+const MAX_SIZE_HINT: u64 = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+
 fn copy_capped<R: Read, W: std::io::Write>(
     reader: &mut R,
     cap: u64,
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/docx.rs b/crates/markkit/src/docx.rs
index 9d0ee82..9b0909e 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/docx.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/docx.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 //! - Skipped: deleted text, field instructions, drawings/text boxes, comments,
 //!   headers/footers, footnotes. Macros (`vbaProject.bin`) are never read.
 
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::rc::Rc;
 
 use crate::archive::{ArchiveError, ZipGuard};
 use crate::config::MarkkitBuilder;
@@ -67,6 +69,22 @@ impl Parts<'_, '_> {
             None => Ok(None),
         }
     }
+
+    /// Read a part, passing each child of the `split` element path to `sink`
+    /// as soon as it is complete (see [`xml::parse_split`]).
+    fn read_xml_split(
+        &mut self,
+        path: &str,
+        split: &[&str],
+        sink: &mut dyn FnMut(Element),
+    ) -> Result<Option<Element>, Error> {
+        match self.zip.read(path).map_err(archive_err)? {
+            Some(bytes) => xml::parse_split(&bytes, self.max_depth, self.budget, split, sink)
+                .map(Some)
+                .map_err(|e| xml_err(path, e)),
+            None => Ok(None),
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Resolve a relationship target relative to the directory of the source part.
@@ -332,21 +350,23 @@ struct Fmt {
     strike: bool,
 }
 
-enum Seg {
+/// Inline segment. Text borrows from the XML tree until it becomes an IR node;
+/// the link is shared by every segment of a hyperlink.
+enum Seg<'e> {
     Text {
-        text: String,
+        text: Cow<'e, str>,
         fmt: Fmt,
-        link: Option<String>,
+        link: Option<Rc<str>>,
     },
     Break {
-        link: Option<String>,
+        link: Option<Rc<str>>,
     },
 }
 
-impl Seg {
-    fn link(&self) -> Option<&str> {
+impl Seg<'_> {
+    fn link(&self) -> Option<&Rc<str>> {
         match self {
-            Seg::Text { link, .. } | Seg::Break { link } => link.as_deref(),
+            Seg::Text { link, .. } | Seg::Break { link } => link.as_ref(),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -393,13 +413,13 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
             .map(|a| format!("#{}", a.replace(' ', "%20")))
     }
 
-    fn collect_segs(&self, el: &Element, link: Option<&str>, segs: &mut Vec<Seg>) {
+    fn collect_segs<'e>(&self, el: &'e Element, link: Option<&Rc<str>>, segs: &mut Vec<Seg<'e>>) {
         for child in el.elements() {
             match child.name.as_str() {
                 "r" => self.run_segs(child, link, segs),
                 "hyperlink" => {
-                    let url = self.hyperlink_url(child);
-                    self.collect_segs(child, url.as_deref().or(link), segs);
+                    let url = self.hyperlink_url(child).map(Rc::from);
+                    self.collect_segs(child, url.as_ref().or(link), segs);
                 }
                 "sdt" => {
                     if let Some(content) = child.child("sdtContent") {
@@ -414,10 +434,10 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
         }
     }
 
-    fn run_segs(&self, run: &Element, link: Option<&str>, segs: &mut Vec<Seg>) {
+    fn run_segs<'e>(&self, run: &'e Element, link: Option<&Rc<str>>, segs: &mut Vec<Seg<'e>>) {
         let fmt = run_fmt(run.child("rPr"));
-        let link = link.map(str::to_string);
-        let push_text = |segs: &mut Vec<Seg>, t: String| {
+        let link = link.cloned();
+        let push_text = |segs: &mut Vec<Seg<'e>>, t: Cow<'e, str>| {
             segs.push(Seg::Text {
                 text: t,
                 fmt,
@@ -427,8 +447,8 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
         for c in run.elements() {
             match c.name.as_str() {
                 "t" => push_text(segs, c.text()),
-                "tab" | "ptab" => push_text(segs, " ".to_string()),
-                "noBreakHyphen" => push_text(segs, "-".to_string()),
+                "tab" | "ptab" => push_text(segs, Cow::Borrowed(" ")),
+                "noBreakHyphen" => push_text(segs, Cow::Borrowed("-")),
                 "br" | "cr" => match c.attr("type") {
                     Some("page") | Some("column") => {}
                     _ => segs.push(Seg::Break { link: link.clone() }),
@@ -446,7 +466,7 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
 }
 
 /// Merge segments and turn them into IR inline nodes.
-fn build_inline(segs: Vec<Seg>) -> Vec<Node> {
+fn build_inline(segs: Vec<Seg<'_>>) -> Vec<Node> {
     // 1. Merge adjacent text with identical formatting and link.
     let mut merged: Vec<Seg> = Vec::with_capacity(segs.len());
     for seg in segs {
@@ -461,81 +481,77 @@ fn build_inline(segs: Vec<Seg>) -> Vec<Node> {
             && pf == fmt
             && pl == link
         {
-            prev.push_str(text);
+            prev.to_mut().push_str(text);
             continue;
         }
         merged.push(seg);
     }
 
     // 2. Group by link.
-    let mut out: Vec<Node> = Vec::new();
-    let mut i = 0;
-    while i < merged.len() {
-        let link = merged[i].link().map(str::to_string);
-        let mut j = i;
-        while j < merged.len() && merged[j].link() == link.as_deref() {
-            j += 1;
-        }
-        let nodes = format_nodes(&merged[i..j]);
-        match link {
-            Some(url) if !is_blank(&nodes) => {
-                let (lead, core, trail) = split_ws_nodes(nodes);
-                out.extend(lead);
-                out.push(Node::Link {
-                    url,
-                    title: None,
-                    children: core,
-                });
-                out.extend(trail);
-            }
-            _ => out.extend(nodes),
+    let mut out: Vec<Node> = Vec::with_capacity(merged.len());
+    let mut segs = merged.into_iter().peekable();
+    while let Some(first) = segs.next() {
+        let Some(url) = first.link().cloned() else {
+            format_seg(first, &mut out);
+            continue;
+        };
+        let mut nodes = Vec::new();
+        format_seg(first, &mut nodes);
+        while let Some(next) = segs.next_if(|s| s.link() == Some(&url)) {
+            format_seg(next, &mut nodes);
+        }
+        if is_blank(&nodes) {
+            out.extend(nodes);
+        } else {
+            let (lead, core, trail) = split_ws_nodes(nodes);
+            out.extend(lead);
+            out.push(Node::Link {
+                url: url.to_string(),
+                title: None,
+                children: core,
+            });
+            out.extend(trail);
         }
-        i = j;
     }
     tidy_inline(out)
 }
 
-fn format_nodes(segs: &[Seg]) -> Vec<Node> {
-    let mut out = Vec::new();
-    for seg in segs {
-        match seg {
-            Seg::Break { .. } => out.push(Node::LineBreak),
-            Seg::Text { text, fmt, .. } => {
-                let core = text.trim();
-                if core.is_empty() || *fmt == Fmt::default() {
-                    out.push(Node::Text(text.clone()));
-                    continue;
-                }
-                let start = text.len() - text.trim_start().len();
-                let lead = &text[..start];
-                let trail = &text[start + core.len()..];
-                if !lead.is_empty() {
-                    out.push(Node::Text(lead.to_string()));
-                }
-                let mut node = Node::Text(core.to_string());
-                if fmt.strike {
-                    node = Node::Strikethrough {
-                        children: vec![node],
-                    };
-                }
-                if fmt.italic {
-                    node = Node::Italic {
-                        children: vec![node],
-                    };
-                }
-                if fmt.bold {
-                    node = Node::Bold {
-                        children: vec![node],
-                    };
-                }
-                out.push(node);
-                if !trail.is_empty() {
-                    out.push(Node::Text(trail.to_string()));
-                }
-            }
-        }
+fn format_seg(seg: Seg<'_>, out: &mut Vec<Node>) {
+    let (text, fmt) = match seg {
+        Seg::Break { .. } => return out.push(Node::LineBreak),
+        Seg::Text { text, fmt, .. } => (text, fmt),
+    };
+    let core = text.trim();
+    if core.is_empty() || fmt == Fmt::default() {
+        out.push(Node::Text(text.into_owned()));
+        return;
+    }
+    let start = text.len() - text.trim_start().len();
+    let lead = &text[..start];
+    let trail = &text[start + core.len()..];
+    if !lead.is_empty() {
+        out.push(Node::Text(lead.to_string()));
+    }
+    let mut node = Node::Text(core.to_string());
+    if fmt.strike {
+        node = Node::Strikethrough {
+            children: vec![node],
+        };
+    }
+    if fmt.italic {
+        node = Node::Italic {
+            children: vec![node],
+        };
+    }
+    if fmt.bold {
+        node = Node::Bold {
+            children: vec![node],
+        };
+    }
+    out.push(node);
+    if !trail.is_empty() {
+        out.push(Node::Text(trail.to_string()));
     }
-    out
 }
 
 /// Split leading/trailing whitespace text out of a node list (for link text).
@@ -561,22 +577,33 @@ fn split_ws_nodes(mut nodes: Vec<Node>) -> (Vec<Node>, Vec<Node>, Vec<Node>) {
 }
 
 /// Merge adjacent text nodes and strip leading/trailing line breaks.
-fn tidy_inline(nodes: Vec<Node>) -> Vec<Node> {
-    let mut out: Vec<Node> = Vec::with_capacity(nodes.len());
-    for n in nodes {
-        match (out.last_mut(), n) {
-            (Some(Node::Text(prev)), Node::Text(t)) => prev.push_str(&t),
-            (_, Node::Text(t)) if t.is_empty() => {}
-            (_, n) => out.push(n),
+fn tidy_inline(mut nodes: Vec<Node>) -> Vec<Node> {
+    // In place: `w` is the write cursor, read slots are taken by swap.
+    let mut w = 0;
+    for r in 0..nodes.len() {
+        match std::mem::replace(&mut nodes[r], Node::LineBreak) {
+            Node::Text(t) if t.is_empty() => {}
+            Node::Text(t) if w > 0 && matches!(nodes[w - 1], Node::Text(_)) => {
+                if let Node::Text(prev) = &mut nodes[w - 1] {
+                    prev.push_str(&t);
+                }
+            }
+            n => {
+                nodes[w] = n;
+                w += 1;
+            }
         }
     }
-    while matches!(out.first(), Some(Node::LineBreak)) {
-        out.remove(0);
+    nodes.truncate(w);
+    while matches!(nodes.last(), Some(Node::LineBreak)) {
+        nodes.pop();
     }
-    while matches!(out.last(), Some(Node::LineBreak)) {
-        out.pop();
-    }
-    out
+    let lead = nodes
+        .iter()
+        .take_while(|n| matches!(n, Node::LineBreak))
+        .count();
+    nodes.drain(..lead);
+    nodes
 }
 
 fn is_blank(nodes: &[Node]) -> bool {
@@ -697,29 +724,33 @@ impl Ctx<'_> {
             if self.budget.expired() {
                 return;
             }
-            match child.name.as_str() {
-                "p" => {
-                    let index = body.next_index;
-                    body.next_index += 1;
-                    self.paragraph(child, body, index);
-                }
-                "tbl" => {
-                    let index = body.next_index;
-                    body.next_index += 1;
-                    body.flush_list();
-                    if let Some(t) = self.table(child) {
-                        body.tables += 1;
-                        body.push(t, index);
-                    }
+            self.block(child, body);
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn block(&self, child: &Element, body: &mut Body) {
+        match child.name.as_str() {
+            "p" => {
+                let index = body.next_index;
+                body.next_index += 1;
+                self.paragraph(child, body, index);
+            }
+            "tbl" => {
+                let index = body.next_index;
+                body.next_index += 1;
+                body.flush_list();
+                if let Some(t) = self.table(child) {
+                    body.tables += 1;
+                    body.push(t, index);
                 }
-                "sdt" => {
-                    if let Some(content) = child.child("sdtContent") {
-                        self.blocks(content, body);
-                    }
+            }
+            "sdt" => {
+                if let Some(content) = child.child("sdtContent") {
+                    self.blocks(content, body);
                 }
-                "ins" | "moveTo" | "customXml" | "smartTag" => self.blocks(child, body),
-                _ => {}
             }
+            "ins" | "moveTo" | "customXml" | "smartTag" => self.blocks(child, body),
+            _ => {}
         }
     }
 
@@ -932,9 +963,6 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(
         .map(|t| resolve_target("", t))
         .unwrap_or_else(|| "docProps/core.xml".to_string());
 
-    let main = zip
-        .read_xml(&main_path)?
-        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("missing main document part".into()))?;
     let (dir, file) = split_dir(&main_path);
     let rels = parse_rels(zip.read_xml(&format!("{dir}/_rels/{file}.rels"))?);
 
@@ -953,13 +981,6 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(
         .and_then(|c| c.find("title").map(|t| t.text().trim().to_string()))
         .filter(|t| !t.is_empty());
 
-    let document = main
-        .child("document")
-        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("main part is not a w:document".into()))?;
-    let body_el = document
-        .child("body")
-        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("document has no body".into()))?;
-
     // Hyperlinks only resolve through external relationships or explicit targets.
     let ctx = Ctx {
         rels: &rels,
@@ -971,7 +992,19 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(
         track: config.track_sources,
         ..Body::default()
     };
-    ctx.blocks(body_el, &mut body);
+    // Body blocks are converted as they are parsed and freed right after, so
+    // the whole document tree is never held at once.
+    let main = zip
+        .read_xml_split(&main_path, &["document", "body"], &mut |el| {
+            if !budget.expired() {
+                ctx.block(&el, &mut body);
+            }
+        })?
+        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("missing main document part".into()))?;
+    main.child("document")
+        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("main part is not a w:document".into()))?
+        .child("body")
+        .ok_or_else(|| Error::DocxExtract("document has no body".into()))?;
     budget.check_time()?;
     body.flush_list();
 
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/render/escape.rs b/crates/markkit/src/render/escape.rs
index aca047c..b440238 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/render/escape.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/render/escape.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,47 @@ pub(crate) enum Position {
 /// Escape document text for inline Markdown. Returns whether the output still sits at
 /// a line start (the run was empty or whitespace only).
 pub(crate) fn push_text(buf: &mut String, s: &str, pos: Position) -> bool {
+    // Fast path: most runs hold nothing escapable, so copy them without the
+    // per-char buffer. Must agree with `push_text_slow` (tested).
+    let inert = !s.bytes().any(|b| {
+        matches!(
+            b,
+            b'`' | b'*'
+                | b'['
+                | b']'
+                | b'<'
+                | b'~'
+                | b'|'
+                | b'\\'
+                | b'!'
+                | b'_'
+                | b'&'
+                | b'\n'
+                | b'\r'
+        )
+    });
+    if inert {
+        let lead = s.bytes().find(|b| !matches!(b, b' ' | b'\t'));
+        if pos == Position::Inline {
+            buf.push_str(s);
+            return false;
+        }
+        match lead {
+            None => {
+                buf.push_str(s);
+                return true;
+            }
+            Some(b) if !matches!(b, b'#' | b'>' | b'-' | b'+' | b'=' | b'0'..=b'9') => {
+                buf.push_str(s);
+                return false;
+            }
+            Some(_) => {}
+        }
+    }
+    push_text_slow(buf, s, pos)
+}
+
+fn push_text_slow(buf: &mut String, s: &str, pos: Position) -> bool {
     let chars: Vec<char> = s
         .chars()
         .map(|c| if c == '\n' || c == '\r' { ' ' } else { c })
@@ -286,6 +327,45 @@ mod tests {
         b
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn fast_path_matches_slow_path() {
+        let samples = [
+            "",
+            " ",
+            "\t ",
+            "plain words",
+            "  lead",
+            "# h",
+            "  # h",
+            "- x",
+            "+x",
+            "=",
+            ">q",
+            "1. one",
+            "12) x",
+            "1x",
+            "a1. b",
+            "é # ü",
+            "x\ny",
+            "\r",
+            "a_b",
+            "C:\\dir",
+            "!",
+            "&",
+            "trail ",
+            "  9",
+            "\u{a0}-",
+        ];
+        for s in samples {
+            for pos in [Position::LineStart, Position::Inline] {
+                let (mut fast, mut slow) = (String::new(), String::new());
+                let a = push_text(&mut fast, s, pos);
+                let b = push_text_slow(&mut slow, s, pos);
+                assert_eq!((fast, a), (slow, b), "{s:?}");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn escapes_inline_syntax() {
         assert_eq!(
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
index b80d4d5..22c0447 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
@@ -744,34 +744,30 @@ fn normalize_output(s: &str) -> String {
     for line in s.lines() {
         // Preserve markdown hard break (line ending in two+ spaces with content)
         let core = line.trim_end();
-        let is_hard_break = line.ends_with("  ") && !core.is_empty();
-        let trimmed = if is_hard_break {
-            core.to_string() + "  "
-        } else {
-            core.to_string()
-        };
-
-        if trimmed.is_empty() || trimmed == "  " {
+        if core.is_empty() {
             blank_count += 1;
             if blank_count <= 1 {
                 result.push('\n');
             }
         } else {
             blank_count = 0;
-            result.push_str(&trimmed);
+            result.push_str(core);
+            if line.ends_with("  ") {
+                result.push_str("  ");
+            }
             result.push('\n');
         }
     }
 
     // Trim leading/trailing blank lines
-    let trimmed = result.trim_matches('\n');
-    if trimmed.is_empty() {
-        String::new()
-    } else {
-        let mut out = trimmed.to_string();
-        out.push('\n');
-        out
+    // Trim in place: drop leading newlines, keep exactly one trailing.
+    let lead = result.len() - result.trim_start_matches('\n').len();
+    result.drain(..lead);
+    result.truncate(result.trim_end_matches('\n').len());
+    if !result.is_empty() {
+        result.push('\n');
     }
+    result
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/xml.rs b/crates/markkit/src/xml.rs
index 45187af..36ed224 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/xml.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/xml.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 //! Tree depth (`limits.max_nesting_depth`), node count (`limits.max_nodes`,
 //! shared across parts) and the deadline are enforced while building; the tree
 //! is built iteratively (no recursion on input).
+//!
+//! Decision: memory. Names are interned per parse, attribute and child lists are
+//! exact-size boxed slices, and single-text elements hand out borrowed text.
+//! [`parse_split`] streams the children of one element path (a DOCX body's
+//! paragraphs and tables) to a callback and frees each one, so peak memory follows
+//! the largest block, not the whole part.
+
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::rc::Rc;
 
 use quick_xml::events::{BytesStart, Event};
 use quick_xml::{Reader, XmlVersion};
@@ -21,17 +31,53 @@ pub(crate) enum XmlError {
     Invalid(String),
 }
 
+/// Interned string (local names and attribute values): one allocation per
+/// distinct value per parse, shared by every element that uses it.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub(crate) struct Name(Rc<str>);
+
+impl Name {
+    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &str {
+        &self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::ops::Deref for Name {
+    type Target = str;
+    fn deref(&self) -> &str {
+        &self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl PartialEq<str> for Name {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &str) -> bool {
+        &*self.0 == other
+    }
+}
+
+impl PartialEq<&str> for Name {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &&str) -> bool {
+        &*self.0 == *other
+    }
+}
+
+/// Element node. Attribute and child lists are exact-size boxed slices (built
+/// from a shared scratch stack), so leaves allocate nothing for them and no
+/// list carries growth slack.
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
 pub(crate) struct Element {
-    pub name: String,
-    pub attrs: Vec<(String, String)>,
-    pub children: Vec<XNode>,
+    pub name: Name,
+    pub attrs: Attrs,
+    pub children: Box<[XNode]>,
 }
 
+/// Attribute list: (local name, value).
+pub(crate) type Attrs = Box<[(Name, Name)]>;
+
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) enum XNode {
     Element(Element),
-    Text(String),
+    Text(Box<str>),
 }
 
 impl Element {
@@ -40,7 +86,7 @@ impl Element {
         self.attrs
             .iter()
             .find(|(k, _)| k == local)
-            .map(|(_, v)| v.as_str())
+            .map(|(_, v)| &**v)
     }
 
     /// Child elements.
@@ -62,7 +108,13 @@ impl Element {
     }
 
     /// Concatenated text of this element and its descendants.
-    pub fn text(&self) -> String {
+    pub fn text(&self) -> Cow<'_, str> {
+        // Common case: one text child, borrowed as is.
+        match &*self.children {
+            [] => return Cow::Borrowed(""),
+            [XNode::Text(t)] => return Cow::Borrowed(t),
+            _ => {}
+        }
         let mut out = String::new();
         // Iterative depth-first walk in document order.
         let mut pending: Vec<std::slice::Iter<'_, XNode>> = vec![self.children.iter()];
@@ -75,7 +127,7 @@ impl Element {
                 }
             }
         }
-        out
+        Cow::Owned(out)
     }
 
     /// Depth-first search for the first descendant with the given local name.
@@ -93,38 +145,101 @@ impl Element {
     }
 }
 
-fn local(name: &str) -> String {
-    match name.rsplit_once(':') {
-        Some((_, local)) => local.to_string(),
-        None => name.to_string(),
-    }
+fn local(name: &str) -> &str {
+    name.rsplit_once(':').map_or(name, |(_, local)| local)
+}
+
+/// Builder state: interned names plus scratch stacks for attributes and
+/// children, so every finished list is collected once at its exact size.
+#[derive(Default)]
+struct Builder<'s> {
+    names: HashMap<Box<str>, Name>,
+    /// Attribute values repeat heavily in OOXML (style ids, `val="0"`), so they
+    /// are interned too.
+    values: HashSet<Rc<str>>,
+    /// Open elements: name, attributes, start index of their children in `nodes`.
+    open: Vec<(Name, Attrs, usize)>,
+    nodes: Vec<XNode>,
+    attrs: Vec<(Name, Name)>,
+    /// Elements whose open ancestors match `split` go to `sink` instead of the tree.
+    split: &'s [&'s str],
+    sink: Option<&'s mut dyn FnMut(Element)>,
 }
 
-fn element_from(start: &BytesStart<'_>) -> Element {
-    let mut attrs = Vec::new();
-    for attr in start.attributes().with_checks(false).flatten() {
-        let key = local(attr.key.as_ref());
-        let value = match attr.normalized_value(XmlVersion::Implicit1_0) {
-            Ok(v) => v.into_owned(),
-            Err(_) => attr.value.into_owned(),
-        };
-        attrs.push((key, value));
+impl Builder<'_> {
+    fn name(&mut self, qname: &str) -> Name {
+        if let Some(n) = self.names.get(qname) {
+            return n.clone();
+        }
+        let n = Name(Rc::from(local(qname)));
+        self.names.insert(qname.into(), n.clone());
+        n
     }
-    Element {
-        name: local(start.name().as_ref()),
-        attrs,
-        children: Vec::new(),
+
+    fn value(&mut self, v: &str) -> Name {
+        if let Some(k) = self.values.get(v) {
+            return Name(k.clone());
+        }
+        let k: Rc<str> = Rc::from(v);
+        self.values.insert(k.clone());
+        Name(k)
+    }
+
+    fn start(&mut self, start: &BytesStart<'_>) -> (Name, Attrs) {
+        for attr in start.attributes().with_checks(false).flatten() {
+            let key = self.name(attr.key.as_ref());
+            let value = match attr.normalized_value(XmlVersion::Implicit1_0) {
+                Ok(v) => self.value(&v),
+                Err(_) => self.value(&attr.value),
+            };
+            self.attrs.push((key, value));
+        }
+        let attrs = self.attrs.drain(..).collect();
+        (self.name(start.name().as_ref()), attrs)
     }
-}
 
-fn push_text(parent: &mut Element, text: &str) {
-    if text.is_empty() {
-        return;
+    /// Start of the innermost open element's children in `nodes`.
+    fn base(&self) -> usize {
+        self.open.last().map_or(0, |o| o.2)
     }
-    if let Some(XNode::Text(prev)) = parent.children.last_mut() {
-        prev.push_str(text);
-    } else {
-        parent.children.push(XNode::Text(text.to_string()));
+
+    fn text(&mut self, text: &str) {
+        if text.is_empty() {
+            return;
+        }
+        let base = self.base();
+        if self.nodes.len() > base
+            && let Some(XNode::Text(prev)) = self.nodes.last_mut()
+        {
+            let mut joined = String::with_capacity(prev.len() + text.len());
+            joined.push_str(prev);
+            joined.push_str(text);
+            *prev = joined.into_boxed_str();
+        } else {
+            self.nodes.push(XNode::Text(text.into()));
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn close(&mut self) {
+        if let Some((name, attrs, base)) = self.open.pop() {
+            let children = self.nodes.drain(base..).collect();
+            self.finish(Element {
+                name,
+                attrs,
+                children,
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn finish(&mut self, el: Element) {
+        if let Some(sink) = self.sink.as_mut()
+            && self.open.len() == self.split.len()
+            && self.open.iter().zip(self.split).all(|(o, s)| o.0 == *s)
+        {
+            sink(el);
+        } else {
+            self.nodes.push(XNode::Element(el));
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -138,9 +253,35 @@ fn limit(e: Error) -> XmlError {
 /// Parse an XML document into a tree. Returns a synthetic root whose children
 /// are the document's top-level nodes.
 pub(crate) fn parse(bytes: &[u8], max_depth: usize, budget: &Budget) -> Result<Element, XmlError> {
+    build(bytes, max_depth, budget, Builder::default())
+}
+
+/// Like [`parse`], but every element whose ancestors' local names are exactly
+/// `split` (outermost first) is passed to `sink` in document order and left out
+/// of the returned tree.
+pub(crate) fn parse_split(
+    bytes: &[u8],
+    max_depth: usize,
+    budget: &Budget,
+    split: &[&str],
+    sink: &mut dyn FnMut(Element),
+) -> Result<Element, XmlError> {
+    let b = Builder {
+        split,
+        sink: Some(sink),
+        ..Builder::default()
+    };
+    build(bytes, max_depth, budget, b)
+}
+
+fn build(
+    bytes: &[u8],
+    max_depth: usize,
+    budget: &Budget,
+    mut b: Builder<'_>,
+) -> Result<Element, XmlError> {
     let mut reader = Reader::from_reader(bytes);
     reader.config_mut().check_end_names = false;
-    let mut stack: Vec<Element> = vec![Element::default()];
     let mut buf = Vec::new();
     loop {
         let event = reader
@@ -157,37 +298,32 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(bytes: &[u8], max_depth: usize, budget: &Budget) -> Result<E
         }
         match event {
             Event::Start(s) => {
-                if stack.len() > max_depth {
+                if b.open.len() >= max_depth {
                     return Err(XmlError::Limit(format!(
                         "XML nesting deeper than max_nesting_depth {max_depth}"
                     )));
                 }
-                stack.push(element_from(&s));
+                let (name, attrs) = b.start(&s);
+                let base = b.nodes.len();
+                b.open.push((name, attrs, base));
             }
             Event::Empty(s) => {
-                let el = element_from(&s);
-                if let Some(top) = stack.last_mut() {
-                    top.children.push(XNode::Element(el));
-                }
+                let (name, attrs) = b.start(&s);
+                b.finish(Element {
+                    name,
+                    attrs,
+                    children: Box::default(),
+                });
             }
             Event::End(_) => {
-                if stack.len() > 1 {
-                    let el = stack.pop().unwrap_or_default();
-                    if let Some(top) = stack.last_mut() {
-                        top.children.push(XNode::Element(el));
-                    }
-                }
+                b.close();
             }
             Event::Text(t) => {
                 let text = t.xml_content(XmlVersion::Implicit1_0);
-                if let Some(top) = stack.last_mut() {
-                    push_text(top, &text);
-                }
+                b.text(&text);
             }
             Event::CData(t) => {
-                if let Some(top) = stack.last_mut() {
-                    push_text(top, &t);
-                }
+                b.text(&t);
             }
             Event::GeneralRef(r) => {
                 let resolved: Option<String> = match r.resolve_char_ref() {
@@ -198,8 +334,8 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(bytes: &[u8], max_depth: usize, budget: &Budget) -> Result<E
                     Err(_) => None,
                 };
                 // Unknown (DTD-declared / external) entities are dropped, never expanded.
-                if let (Some(text), Some(top)) = (resolved, stack.last_mut()) {
-                    push_text(top, &text);
+                if let Some(text) = resolved {
+                    b.text(&text);
                 }
             }
             Event::Eof => break,
@@ -208,13 +344,13 @@ pub(crate) fn parse(bytes: &[u8], max_depth: usize, budget: &Budget) -> Result<E
         buf.clear();
     }
     // Leniently close unterminated elements.
-    while stack.len() > 1 {
-        let el = stack.pop().unwrap_or_default();
-        if let Some(top) = stack.last_mut() {
-            top.children.push(XNode::Element(el));
-        }
+    while !b.open.is_empty() {
+        b.close();
     }
-    Ok(stack.pop().unwrap_or_default())
+    Ok(Element {
+        children: b.nodes.into_boxed_slice(),
+        ..Element::default()
+    })
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -237,6 +373,36 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(root.find("c").map(|e| e.name.as_str()), Some("c"));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn split_streams_matching_children_in_order() {
+        let xml = br#"<w:document><w:body><w:p>a</w:p><w:tbl><w:p>in</w:p></w:tbl><w:p/>t<w:sectPr/></w:body><w:p>out</w:p></w:document>"#;
+        let mut seen = Vec::new();
+        let rest = parse_split(
+            xml,
+            256,
+            &Budget::new(&Limits::default()),
+            &["document", "body"],
+            &mut |el| seen.push(format!("{}:{}", el.name.as_str(), el.text())),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(seen, ["p:a", "tbl:in", "p:", "sectPr:"]);
+        let doc = rest.child("document").unwrap();
+        // Streamed elements are gone; text and non-matching paths stay.
+        assert_eq!(doc.child("body").unwrap().text(), "t");
+        assert_eq!(doc.child("p").unwrap().text(), "out");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn names_and_values_are_shared_not_copied() {
+        let root = parse(br#"<r><a:x v="1"/><a:x v="1"/><x v="2">t<y/>u</x></r>"#).unwrap();
+        let xs: Vec<_> = root.child("r").unwrap().elements().collect();
+        assert!(Rc::ptr_eq(&xs[0].name.0, &xs[1].name.0));
+        assert!(Rc::ptr_eq(&xs[0].attrs[0].1.0, &xs[1].attrs[0].1.0));
+        assert_eq!(xs[2].attr("v"), Some("2"));
+        assert!(matches!(xs[0].text(), Cow::Borrowed("")));
+        assert!(matches!(xs[2].text(), Cow::Owned(t) if t == "tu"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn depth_limited() {
         let deep = "<a>".repeat(256 + 10);
diff --git a/crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs b/crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs
index ce64334..6dcfcc9 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/tests/document_security.rs
@@ -280,6 +280,35 @@ fn docx_missing_document_part_is_error() {
     assert!(matches!(err, Error::DocxExtract(_)), "{err:?}");
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "docx")]
+#[test]
+fn docx_without_document_or_body_is_error() {
+    // The body is streamed while parsing; structure errors must still surface.
+    let w = r#"xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main""#;
+    for doc in [
+        format!("<w:other {w}><w:body><w:p><w:r><w:t>x</w:t></w:r></w:p></w:body></w:other>"),
+        format!("<w:document {w}><w:p><w:r><w:t>x</w:t></w:r></w:p></w:document>"),
+        format!("<w:x {w}><w:document><w:body><w:p/></w:body></w:document></w:x>"),
+    ] {
+        let bytes = zip_bytes(&[("word/document.xml", doc.as_bytes())]);
+        let err = run(&Markkit::builder().build(), &bytes, DOCX_CT).unwrap_err();
+        assert!(matches!(err, Error::DocxExtract(_)), "{doc}: {err:?}");
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "docx")]
+#[test]
+fn docx_streamed_body_keeps_node_and_depth_limits() {
+    let body = para("x").repeat(2_000);
+    let err = run(
+        &Markkit::builder().max_nodes(500).build(),
+        &docx(&body),
+        DOCX_CT,
+    )
+    .unwrap_err();
+    assert!(matches!(err, Error::ResourceLimit(_)), "{err:?}");
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "spreadsheet")]
 #[test]
 fn spreadsheet_garbage_is_error() {
diff --git a/knowledge/formats/format-support.md b/knowledge/formats/format-support.md
index 0ae6deb..dfdfc2c 100644
--- a/knowledge/formats/format-support.md
+++ b/knowledge/formats/format-support.md
@@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ mislabelled as another Excel type still parses.
 | `w:del`, `w:instrText`, drawings/text boxes, comments, headers/footers, footnotes | Skipped |
 
 The main part is located through `_rels/.rels` (fallback `word/document.xml`); styles and
-numbering through the main part's relationships.
+numbering through the main part's relationships. Body blocks (`w:p`, `w:tbl`, ...) are
+converted while the main part is parsed and each block's XML subtree is freed right after
+(`xml::parse_split`), so peak memory follows the largest block, not the document. XML
+trees intern element names and attribute values per part.
 
 ## Spreadsheet Mapping
 
diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index a41cbe6..6e3afb4 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 * **Nesting cost**: HTML parsing was quadratic in nesting depth (html5ever) and exponential in nested tables (descendant row selection duplicated inner rows); text flattened past `max_nesting_depth` leaked `<script>`/`<style>` bodies. Fixed with a pre-scan nesting cap, direct-structure table rows and a non-content-aware flattener; new invariant S18. Found by `markkit-bench`. See [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T2c.
 * **Spreadsheet follow-ups (#11)**: single-row sheets render as data under column letters; XLSX/ODS/XLS titles come from document properties; XLSB content type no longer maps to XLSX; XLSX without `_rels/.rels` parses; trailing-newline output documented as intended; release profile switched to `panic = "unwind"` so `catch_unwind` is effective in markkit's own binaries. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T6c.
+* **DOCX memory**: `docx_report` peaked at 18.5 MiB for 1.5 MB of XML with 265k allocations. The main part's body is now streamed block by block, XML names and attribute values are interned, child/attribute lists are exact-size, run text is borrowed until it becomes IR, and the escaper and output normalizer stop allocating per run/line. Result: 3.9 MiB peak, about 137k allocations. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md).
 
 ## 2026-10-26
 
diff --git a/knowledge/security/threat-model.md b/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
index 69d2d26..fd10668 100644
--- a/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
+++ b/knowledge/security/threat-model.md
@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ process, or smuggling content past a human reviewer.
 
 #### T6a: Zip bombs
 - Limits apply to bytes actually produced by the decompressor (`Read::take`), never to
-  attacker-controlled header sizes.
+  attacker-controlled header sizes. A declared size is only a buffer capacity hint,
+  clamped to `max_archive_entry_size` and 16 MiB.
 - `max_archive_entries` (10 000), `max_archive_entry_size` (64 MiB),
   `max_archive_total_size` (256 MiB) → `Error::ResourceLimit`.
 - DOCX reads only the parts it needs, each through the bounded reader.

From 4b96351b1236c353ee79c0cbd4c11b561b011266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:01:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 08/11] perf(spreadsheet): format cells without intermediate
 copies

xlsx_large (150k cells): allocations 768k -> 513k, ods_medium 86k -> 72k.
XLSX cells are formatted straight from calamine's DataRef instead of
cloning into Data first, cell text is trimmed in place, and table
layout sizes each grid row once.
---
 CHANGELOG.md                          |  2 ++
 crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs |  2 +-
 crates/markkit/src/spreadsheet.rs     | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 knowledge/log.md                      |  1 +
 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b0fb816..0873a07 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
   right after, and the XML tree is compact (interned names and values, exact-size lists). A 1.5 MB
   `document.xml` peaks at 3.9 MiB instead of 18.5 MiB, with half the allocations. Markdown
   rendering allocates less for every format.
+- Spreadsheets make a third fewer allocations per cell (XLSX values are formatted without an
+  intermediate copy and trimmed in place).
 - **Breaking**: limit fields moved from `MarkkitBuilder` to `MarkkitBuilder::limits`
   (`config().max_input_size` → `config().limits.max_input_size`); `max_processing_secs` field is
   now `limits.timeout: Duration`. Builder setters are unchanged, plus new `timeout`,
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
index 22c0447..7c620b8 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ fn layout_table<'a>(rows: &[&'a [TableCell]], spans: bool) -> Option<Vec<GridRow
         for p in pending.iter_mut() {
             *p = p.saturating_sub(1);
         }
-        let mut out: GridRow<'a> = Vec::new();
+        let mut out: GridRow<'a> = Vec::with_capacity(row.len());
         let mut col = 0usize;
         for cell in row.iter() {
             while busy.get(col).copied().unwrap_or(false) {
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/spreadsheet.rs b/crates/markkit/src/spreadsheet.rs
index 4b0c99d..9ce4640 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/spreadsheet.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/spreadsheet.rs
@@ -238,13 +238,29 @@ fn fmt_data(d: &Data) -> String {
     }
 }
 
+/// Same output as [`fmt_data`], without first cloning into an owned `Data`.
 fn fmt_ref(d: &DataRef<'_>) -> String {
     match d {
+        DataRef::Int(i) => i.to_string(),
+        DataRef::Float(f) => fmt_float(*f),
+        DataRef::String(s) | DataRef::DurationIso(s) => s.clone(),
         DataRef::SharedString(s) => (*s).to_string(),
-        other => fmt_data(&Data::from(other.clone())),
+        DataRef::DateTimeIso(s) => s.replacen('T', " ", 1),
+        DataRef::Bool(b) => b.to_string(),
+        DataRef::DateTime(dt) => fmt_datetime(dt),
+        DataRef::Error(e) => e.to_string(),
+        DataRef::Empty => String::new(),
     }
 }
 
+/// Trim in place, keeping the allocation.
+fn trim_owned(mut s: String) -> String {
+    s.truncate(s.trim_end().len());
+    let lead = s.len() - s.trim_start().len();
+    s.drain(..lead);
+    s
+}
+
 // ─── Grid collection (bounded) ──────────────────────────────────────
 
 struct SheetTable {
@@ -292,7 +308,8 @@ impl Grid {
     }
 
     fn add(&mut self, r: u32, c: u32, value: String) {
-        if value.trim().is_empty() {
+        let value = trim_owned(value);
+        if value.is_empty() {
             return;
         }
         let keep = self.max_rows.saturating_add(1);
@@ -348,7 +365,7 @@ impl Grid {
             for (c, v) in cells {
                 let idx = (c - min_col) as usize;
                 if idx < width {
-                    row[idx] = v.trim().to_string();
+                    row[idx] = v;
                 }
             }
             row
@@ -878,6 +895,35 @@ fn prescan_ods(content: &[u8], max_cells: u64) -> Result<(), Error> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn fmt_ref_matches_fmt_data() {
+        let dt =
+            calamine::ExcelDateTime::new(45_000.5, calamine::ExcelDateTimeType::DateTime, false);
+        let refs = [
+            DataRef::Int(-3),
+            DataRef::Float(2.0),
+            DataRef::Float(0.25),
+            DataRef::String("s".into()),
+            DataRef::SharedString("shared"),
+            DataRef::Bool(true),
+            DataRef::DateTime(dt),
+            DataRef::DateTimeIso("2024-01-02T03:04:05".into()),
+            DataRef::DurationIso("PT1H".into()),
+            DataRef::Error(calamine::CellErrorType::Div0),
+            DataRef::Empty,
+        ];
+        for r in refs {
+            assert_eq!(fmt_ref(&r), fmt_data(&Data::from(r.clone())), "{r:?}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn trim_owned_trims_unicode_whitespace() {
+        assert_eq!(trim_owned("\u{a0} a b \t\n".into()), "a b");
+        assert_eq!(trim_owned(" \u{3000} ".into()), "");
+        assert_eq!(trim_owned("x".into()), "x");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn float_formatting() {
         assert_eq!(fmt_float(3.0), "3");
diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index 6e3afb4..4818c99 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 * **Nesting cost**: HTML parsing was quadratic in nesting depth (html5ever) and exponential in nested tables (descendant row selection duplicated inner rows); text flattened past `max_nesting_depth` leaked `<script>`/`<style>` bodies. Fixed with a pre-scan nesting cap, direct-structure table rows and a non-content-aware flattener; new invariant S18. Found by `markkit-bench`. See [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T2c.
 * **Spreadsheet follow-ups (#11)**: single-row sheets render as data under column letters; XLSX/ODS/XLS titles come from document properties; XLSB content type no longer maps to XLSX; XLSX without `_rels/.rels` parses; trailing-newline output documented as intended; release profile switched to `panic = "unwind"` so `catch_unwind` is effective in markkit's own binaries. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T6c.
 * **DOCX memory**: `docx_report` peaked at 18.5 MiB for 1.5 MB of XML with 265k allocations. The main part's body is now streamed block by block, XML names and attribute values are interned, child/attribute lists are exact-size, run text is borrowed until it becomes IR, and the escaper and output normalizer stop allocating per run/line. Result: 3.9 MiB peak, about 137k allocations. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md).
+* **Spreadsheet allocations**: `xlsx_large` (150k cells) made about 5 allocations per cell: XLSX values were cloned into `Data` and formatted again, and every cell was trimmed into a new string. Cells are now formatted straight from calamine's `DataRef` and trimmed in place; about 3.4 per cell remain (one is calamine's, two are the cell's text and its IR `TableCell` node list).
 
 ## 2026-10-26
 

From d15598696ea9e5694a87c044bfee305e27391463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:11:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 09/11] perf(html): pre-size the DOM arena and inline node
 lists

html_docs_page peak 7.5 -> 4.7 MiB, html_tables 8.6 -> 5.1 MiB;
allocations roughly halved. The scraper node arena is sized from a
clamped byte scan instead of growing by doubling, collect_inline sizes
its node list from the child count, text is collapsed without a copy,
and nested renderers no longer reserve 4 KiB each.
---
 CHANGELOG.md                          |  3 ++
 crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs     | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs |  2 +
 knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md  |  7 +++
 knowledge/log.md                      |  1 +
 5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0873a07..5399bbd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
   right after, and the XML tree is compact (interned names and values, exact-size lists). A 1.5 MB
   `document.xml` peaks at 3.9 MiB instead of 18.5 MiB, with half the allocations. Markdown
   rendering allocates less for every format.
+- HTML peak memory down about 35% and allocations about halved on large pages (DOM arena
+  pre-sized, inline node lists sized to their content, no copy of text before whitespace
+  collapsing).
 - Spreadsheets make a third fewer allocations per cell (XLSX values are formatted without an
   intermediate copy and trimmed in place).
 - **Breaking**: limit fields moved from `MarkkitBuilder` to `MarkkitBuilder::limits`
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs b/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
index d1ee896..732f005 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/html/parser.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,28 @@ use super::{readability, urls};
 const NESTING_SLACK: usize = 8;
 
 /// HTML-spec clamps for table spans.
+/// Most nodes a DOM arena is pre-sized for; larger documents grow it as before.
+const MAX_NODE_ESTIMATE: usize = 1 << 18;
+
+/// Rough DOM node count: start tags (elements) plus text runs (a `>` not
+/// directly followed by `<`). Only a capacity hint, so it is clamped: at most one
+/// node per 4 input bytes (`<b>b</b>` is 4 bytes per node; pages run 15+) and
+/// `MAX_NODE_ESTIMATE` (32 MiB of arena), so hostile `<a<a<a…` cannot reserve
+/// much. Pages past the clamp grow the arena as html5ever always did.
+fn node_estimate(html: &str) -> usize {
+    let (mut tags, mut texts) = (0usize, 0usize);
+    for w in html.as_bytes().windows(2) {
+        match w {
+            [b'<', c] if c.is_ascii_alphabetic() => tags += 1,
+            [b'>', c] if *c != b'<' => texts += 1,
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+    (tags + texts + 8)
+        .min(html.len() / 4)
+        .min(MAX_NODE_ESTIMATE)
+}
+
 const MAX_COLSPAN: u32 = 1000;
 const MAX_ROWSPAN: u32 = 65534;
 
@@ -108,7 +130,15 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
 
     /// html5ever parse of `html` with nesting capped first (see `nesting`).
     fn parse_html5ever(&self, html: &str) -> Html {
-        Html::parse_document(&nesting::cap_nesting(html, self.max_depth + NESTING_SLACK))
+        use html5ever::tendril::TendrilSink;
+        let html = nesting::cap_nesting(html, self.max_depth + NESTING_SLACK);
+        // Same as `Html::parse_document`, but the node arena starts near its final
+        // size: growing it by doubling briefly holds old and new arrays, which
+        // set the HTML peak heap.
+        let mut doc = Html::new_document();
+        doc.tree = ego_tree::Tree::with_capacity(scraper::Node::Document, node_estimate(&html));
+        html5ever::driver::parse_document(scraper::HtmlTreeSink::new(doc), Default::default())
+            .one(html.as_ref())
     }
 
     /// Parse an HTML string into a [`Document`] plus page title and metadata.
@@ -265,8 +295,8 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
         for child in parent.children() {
             match child.value() {
                 HtmlNode::Text(text) => {
-                    let t = text.to_string();
-                    let collapsed = collapse_whitespace(&t);
+                    let t: &str = text;
+                    let collapsed = collapse_whitespace(t);
                     if !collapsed.is_empty() {
                         out.push(Node::Text(collapsed));
                     } else if t.contains(char::is_whitespace) && !out.is_empty() {
@@ -774,10 +804,12 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
         exclude: &[Selector],
         depth: usize,
     ) -> Vec<Node> {
-        let mut nodes = Vec::new();
         if self.budget().expired() {
-            return nodes;
+            return Vec::new();
         }
+        // Each child yields at most one node: size once (most cells and
+        // paragraphs hold one or two) instead of the default growth to four.
+        let mut nodes = Vec::with_capacity(el.children().count().max(1));
         if depth >= self.max_depth {
             let text = flat_text(el);
             let trimmed = text.trim();
@@ -790,8 +822,8 @@ impl<'a> HtmlParser<'a> {
         for child in el.children() {
             match child.value() {
                 HtmlNode::Text(text) => {
-                    let t = text.to_string();
-                    let collapsed = collapse_whitespace(&t);
+                    let t: &str = text;
+                    let collapsed = collapse_whitespace(t);
                     if !collapsed.is_empty() {
                         nodes.push(Node::Text(collapsed));
                     } else if t.contains(char::is_whitespace) && !nodes.is_empty() {
@@ -1123,6 +1155,10 @@ fn extract_language_from_class(class: &str) -> Option<String> {
 /// Collapse runs of whitespace into single spaces.
 /// Preserves a leading/trailing space if the original had one (important for inline context).
 fn collapse_whitespace(s: &str) -> String {
+    // Whitespace-only text nodes are common between tags: no allocation.
+    if s.trim().is_empty() {
+        return String::new();
+    }
     let has_leading_space = s.starts_with(char::is_whitespace);
     let has_trailing_space = s.ends_with(char::is_whitespace);
 
@@ -1224,6 +1260,22 @@ fn is_transparent_container(tag: &str) -> bool {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn node_estimate_tracks_tags_and_text_but_is_clamped() {
+        let page = "<p>a <b>b</b> c</p>".repeat(100);
+        let real = Html::parse_document(&page).tree.nodes().count();
+        let est = node_estimate(&page);
+        assert!(
+            est >= real * 9 / 10 && est <= real * 3 / 2,
+            "{est} vs {real}"
+        );
+        // Hostile: thousands of `<a` make one element; reserve at most len / 4.
+        let hostile = "<a".repeat(50_000);
+        assert!(node_estimate(&hostile) <= hostile.len() / 4);
+        assert_eq!(node_estimate(""), 0);
+        assert!(node_estimate(&"<i>x</i>".repeat(1_000_000)) <= MAX_NODE_ESTIMATE);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_collapse_whitespace() {
         assert_eq!(collapse_whitespace("  hello   world  "), " hello world ");
diff --git a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
index 7c620b8..697702b 100644
--- a/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
+++ b/crates/markkit/src/render/markdown.rs
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ impl MarkdownRenderer {
     /// Nested renderer sharing this renderer's limits.
     fn sub(&self) -> Self {
         Self {
+            // Nested blocks are usually short: no up-front 4 KiB per list item.
+            buf: String::new(),
             max_output: self.max_output,
             deadline: self.deadline,
             ..Self::new()
diff --git a/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md b/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
index 42986de..32bb126 100644
--- a/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
+++ b/knowledge/formats/html-extraction.md
@@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ tables stay in the nested table.
 Prevents stack overflow and super-linear time on adversarial nesting. Tested with 64 000
 nested `<div>`s, 20 000 unclosed nested tables, and script/style past the limit.
 
+## Memory
+
+The scraper DOM (about 128 bytes per node) dominates peak heap. `parse_html5ever` pre-sizes
+the node arena from a byte scan (start tags plus text runs, clamped to `len / 4` and 2^18
+nodes) instead of letting it double, inline node lists are sized from the child count, and
+whitespace-only text nodes allocate nothing. Bench pages peak at 16-20x input (was 25x).
+
 ## Exclude Selector Defaults
 
 Default `exclude_selectors` in `MarkkitBuilder::default()`:
diff --git a/knowledge/log.md b/knowledge/log.md
index 4818c99..1f12fb5 100644
--- a/knowledge/log.md
+++ b/knowledge/log.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 * **Spreadsheet follow-ups (#11)**: single-row sheets render as data under column letters; XLSX/ODS/XLS titles come from document properties; XLSB content type no longer maps to XLSX; XLSX without `_rels/.rels` parses; trailing-newline output documented as intended; release profile switched to `panic = "unwind"` so `catch_unwind` is effective in markkit's own binaries. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md) and [Threat Model](security/threat-model.md) T6c.
 * **DOCX memory**: `docx_report` peaked at 18.5 MiB for 1.5 MB of XML with 265k allocations. The main part's body is now streamed block by block, XML names and attribute values are interned, child/attribute lists are exact-size, run text is borrowed until it becomes IR, and the escaper and output normalizer stop allocating per run/line. Result: 3.9 MiB peak, about 137k allocations. See [Format Support](formats/format-support.md).
 * **Spreadsheet allocations**: `xlsx_large` (150k cells) made about 5 allocations per cell: XLSX values were cloned into `Data` and formatted again, and every cell was trimmed into a new string. Cells are now formatted straight from calamine's `DataRef` and trimmed in place; about 3.4 per cell remain (one is calamine's, two are the cell's text and its IR `TableCell` node list).
+* **HTML memory**: peak heap was about 25x input, mostly scraper's node arena grown by doubling plus four-slot inline node lists for one-node cells. The arena is now pre-sized from a clamped byte scan, inline lists are sized from the child count, and text nodes are no longer copied before whitespace collapsing. See [HTML Extraction](formats/html-extraction.md).
 
 ## 2026-10-26
 

From b97d208b89124a2e42342929e926b2efec4e27c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:12:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 10/11] docs(bench): commit post-fix benchmark run and refresh
 README tables

---
 README.md                                     |  49 +-
 crates/markkit-bench/README.md                |  35 +-
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json     | 522 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md       |  50 ++
 4 files changed, 614 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8a273d..02c440c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -231,37 +231,36 @@ Other options: `include_hidden_sheets`, `allow_private_networks`, `allow_host`.
 ## Performance
 
 Measured with `just bench` (in-process, release build, 20 iterations after 3 warmup) on a
-4-CPU Linux x86_64 VM, markkit 0.1.1. Allocations and peak heap are per single extraction.
-Full report: [`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md); history in
+4-CPU Linux x86_64 VM. Allocations and peak heap are per single extraction; the last column
+is the 0.1.1 baseline. Full report: [`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md); history in
 [`crates/markkit-bench/results/`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/).
 
-| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
-|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|
-| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 49 µs | 20,365 | 17 MiB/s | 213 | 28 KiB |
-| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 641 µs | 1,561 | 23 MiB/s | 2,427 | 304 KiB |
-| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 13.0 ms | 77 | 22 MiB/s | 47,578 | 7.5 MiB |
-| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 15.0 ms | 67 | 17 MiB/s | 50,349 | 8.6 MiB |
-| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 706 µs | 1,417 | 63 MiB/s | 81 | 305 KiB |
-| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 3.6 ms | 282 | 3 MiB/s | 442 | 147 KiB |
-| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 87 µs | 11,508 | 16 MiB/s | 733 | 93 KiB |
-| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 35.7 ms | 28 | 0.2 MiB/s | 265,791 | 18.5 MiB |
-| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 291 µs | 3,435 | 9 MiB/s | 1,668 | 129 KiB |
-| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 782,800 | 24.9 MiB |
-| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.2 ms | 43 | 3 MiB/s | 92,515 | 3.0 MiB |
-| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,141,227 | n/a | 0 | 0 B |
+| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap | Allocs / peak in 0.1.1 |
+|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|------:|
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 59 µs | 16,840 | 14 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 632 µs | 1,583 | 24 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 16.4 ms | 61 | 18 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 14.2 ms | 70 | 18 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 696 µs | 1,436 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 483 µs | 2,069 | 22 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 77 µs | 13,047 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.9 ms | 44 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 298 µs | 3,354 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 183 ms | 5 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.6 ms | 42 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 2.1 µs | 480,480 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
 
 Takeaways:
 
-- **HTML** extracts at 17–25 MiB/s; peak heap is ~25x the input size.
+- **HTML** extracts at 14–24 MiB/s with peak heap 16–20x the input (was ~25x).
+- **Deep nesting is linear**: 1000 nested `<div>`s take 0.5 ms (was 3.6 ms), and 64k nested
+  `<div>`s take 2.4 ms (was 12.6 s).
 - **Boilerplate-heavy pages are cheap**: scripts, styles and nav are dropped at ~60 MiB/s.
-- **Deep nesting is the slow outlier**: 1000 nested `<div>`s run at 3 MiB/s with few
-  allocations, so the cost is CPU in tree building, not memory.
-- **Office formats allocate most**: a 150k-cell XLSX takes 172 ms and ~5 allocations per cell;
-  a 9 KiB compressed DOCX peaks at 18.5 MiB of heap (~2000x its compressed size).
-- **Format detection** is effectively free (under 1 µs, no allocations).
-
-Timings on a shared VM are noisy (stddev up to ~70% on the smallest cases); allocation counts
-are deterministic and the better regression signal. Compare runs from the same machine only.
+- **DOCX** streams the document body: a 400-section report peaks at 3.9 MiB (was 18.5 MiB) with
+  half the allocations.
+- **Spreadsheets** cost about 3.4 allocations per cell (was 5.2); one is calamine's and two are
+  the cell's text and its table node, so peak heap now tracks the size of the output table.
+- **Format detection** is effectively free (microseconds, no allocations).
 
 ## Security
 
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
index 2429931..9eeb17f 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
@@ -27,22 +27,23 @@ same moniker only. Commit a fresh run with performance-relevant PRs.
 
 Design and metric definitions: `knowledge/operations/performance-results.md`.
 
-## Latest baseline (vm, linux x86_64, 4 CPUs, 2026-10-26)
+## Latest baseline (vm, linux x86_64, 4 CPUs, 2026-10-27)
 
 20 iterations, 3 warmup, release. Full report:
-[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md).
-
-| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap |
-|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|
-| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 49 µs | 20,365 | 17 MiB/s | 213 | 28 KiB |
-| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 641 µs | 1,561 | 23 MiB/s | 2,427 | 304 KiB |
-| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 13.0 ms | 77 | 22 MiB/s | 47,578 | 7.5 MiB |
-| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 15.0 ms | 67 | 17 MiB/s | 50,349 | 8.6 MiB |
-| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 706 µs | 1,417 | 63 MiB/s | 81 | 305 KiB |
-| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 3.6 ms | 282 | 3 MiB/s | 442 | 147 KiB |
-| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 87 µs | 11,508 | 16 MiB/s | 733 | 93 KiB |
-| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 35.7 ms | 28 | 0.2 MiB/s | 265,791 | 18.5 MiB |
-| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 291 µs | 3,435 | 9 MiB/s | 1,668 | 129 KiB |
-| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 782,800 | 24.9 MiB |
-| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.2 ms | 43 | 3 MiB/s | 92,515 | 3.0 MiB |
-| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,141,227 | n/a | 0 | 0 B |
+[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md).
+Last column: the 0.1.1 baseline ([`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md)).
+
+| Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap | Allocs / peak in 0.1.1 |
+|------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|------:|
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 59 µs | 16,840 | 14 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 632 µs | 1,583 | 24 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 16.4 ms | 61 | 18 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 14.2 ms | 70 | 18 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 696 µs | 1,436 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 483 µs | 2,069 | 22 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 77 µs | 13,047 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.9 ms | 44 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 298 µs | 3,354 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 183 ms | 5 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.6 ms | 42 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 2.1 µs | 480,480 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02cb231
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
@@ -0,0 +1,522 @@
+{
+  "timestamp": 1793067120,
+  "system": {
+    "moniker": "vm-linux-x86_64",
+    "hostname": "vm",
+    "os": "linux",
+    "arch": "x86_64",
+    "cpus": 4,
+    "markkit_version": "0.1.1",
+    "git_commit": "d15598696ea9",
+    "profile": "release"
+  },
+  "iterations": 20,
+  "warmup": 3,
+  "peak_rss_bytes": 37609472,
+  "results": [
+    {
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+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Golden fixture full_article.html",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 881,
+      "output_bytes": 315,
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+    },
+    {
+      "name": "html_blog_post",
+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Article with nav/footer/scripts, 20 sections",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 15685,
+      "output_bytes": 12030,
+      "times_ns": [
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+    {
+      "name": "html_docs_page",
+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "Long docs page, 400 sections, no chrome",
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+      "category": "html",
+      "description": "50 tables x 40 rows x 6 cols",
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+    {
+      "name": "detect_docx_magic",
+      "category": "detect",
+      "description": "Sniff DOCX from bytes without a hint",
+      "iterations": 20,
+      "input_bytes": 9299,
+      "output_bytes": 0,
+      "times_ns": [
+        2127,
+        2081,
+        2080,
+        2074,
+        2076,
+        2084,
+        2093,
+        2078,
+        2077,
+        2092,
+        2092,
+        2072,
+        2072,
+        2067,
+        2077,
+        2067,
+        2073,
+        2067,
+        2097,
+        2079
+      ],
+      "mean_ns": 2081.25,
+      "median_ns": 2077.5,
+      "stddev_ns": 13.601010991834395,
+      "min_ns": 2067,
+      "max_ns": 2127,
+      "ops_per_sec": 480480.4804804804,
+      "throughput_mib_s": 4261.00539015578,
+      "allocations": 0,
+      "allocated_bytes": 0,
+      "peak_heap_bytes": 0,
+      "errors": 0,
+      "error_messages": []
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7ff32a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Markkit Benchmark Report
+
+## System Information
+
+- **Moniker**: `vm-linux-x86_64`
+- **OS / Arch**: linux / x86_64
+- **CPUs**: 4
+- **markkit**: 0.1.1 (`d15598696ea9`)
+- **Profile**: release
+- **Timestamp**: 1793067120
+- **Iterations**: 20 (warmup 3)
+- **Peak RSS**: 35.87 MiB
+
+## Summary
+
+12 cases, 262.789 ms total mean time per pass, 0 errors.
+
+Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. Throughput is input bytes over mean time.
+
+### HTML
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 315 B | 59.38 µs | 50.78 µs | ±16.43 µs | 16840 | 14.1 | 158 | 34.3 KiB | 21.6 KiB | - |
+| html_blog_post | 15.3 KiB | 11.7 KiB | 631.74 µs | 621.28 µs | ±32.95 µs | 1583 | 23.7 | 2505 | 337.1 KiB | 241.3 KiB | - |
+| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 235.0 KiB | 16.38 ms | 14.38 ms | ±5.16 ms | 61 | 17.9 | 49342 | 6.65 MiB | 4.73 MiB | - |
+| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 170.1 KiB | 14.19 ms | 13.91 ms | ±1.22 ms | 70 | 17.7 | 33635 | 6.78 MiB | 5.07 MiB | - |
+| html_boilerplate | 45.2 KiB | 191 B | 696.19 µs | 693.91 µs | ±23.43 µs | 1436 | 63.4 | 66 | 258.2 KiB | 251.9 KiB | - |
+| html_deep_nesting | 10.8 KiB | 5 B | 483.30 µs | 474.30 µs | ±26.97 µs | 2069 | 21.7 | 551 | 90.9 KiB | 52.1 KiB | - |
+
+### DOCX
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| docx_memo | 1.4 KiB | 636 B | 76.65 µs | 72.14 µs | ±12.63 µs | 13047 | 17.8 | 499 | 203.9 KiB | 59.3 KiB | - |
+| docx_report | 9.1 KiB | 262.3 KiB | 22.95 ms | 19.81 ms | ±6.63 ms | 44 | 0.4 | 136866 | 11.96 MiB | 3.91 MiB | - |
+
+### Spreadsheet
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| xlsx_small | 2.8 KiB | 2.7 KiB | 298.11 µs | 287.24 µs | ±39.10 µs | 3354 | 9.2 | 1165 | 650.7 KiB | 129.1 KiB | - |
+| xlsx_large | 765.8 KiB | 1.76 MiB | 183.43 ms | 174.79 ms | ±19.14 ms | 5 | 4.1 | 512786 | 37.56 MiB | 21.47 MiB | - |
+| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 162.5 KiB | 23.60 ms | 22.79 ms | ±3.23 ms | 42 | 2.9 | 72498 | 8.91 MiB | 3.03 MiB | - |
+
+### Detect
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| detect_docx_magic | 9.1 KiB | 0 B | 2.08 µs | 2.08 µs | ±14 ns | 480480 | 4261.0 | 0 | 0 B | 0 B | - |

From dacaeff5a0eb30e602aab8f98e12a027d6b03ea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mykhailo Chalyi <mike@chaliy.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:05:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] docs(bench): refresh benchmark run on top of current
 main

---
 README.md                                     |  28 +-
 crates/markkit-bench/README.md                |  26 +-
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json     | 522 ------------------
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md       |  50 --
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.json     | 522 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md       |  50 ++
 6 files changed, 599 insertions(+), 599 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
 delete mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.json
 create mode 100644 crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2ba64aa..55f82f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -248,27 +248,27 @@ Other options: `include_hidden_sheets`, `allow_private_networks`, `allow_host`.
 
 Measured with `just bench` (in-process, release build, 20 iterations after 3 warmup) on a
 4-CPU Linux x86_64 VM. Allocations and peak heap are per single extraction; the last column
-is the 0.1.1 baseline. Full report: [`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md); history in
+is the 0.1.1 baseline. Full report: [`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md); history in
 [`crates/markkit-bench/results/`](https://github.com/everruns/markkit/blob/main/crates/markkit-bench/results/).
 
 | Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap | Allocs / peak in 0.1.1 |
 |------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|------:|
-| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 59 µs | 16,840 | 14 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
-| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 632 µs | 1,583 | 24 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
-| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 16.4 ms | 61 | 18 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
-| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 14.2 ms | 70 | 18 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
-| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 696 µs | 1,436 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
-| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 483 µs | 2,069 | 22 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
-| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 77 µs | 13,047 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
-| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.9 ms | 44 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
-| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 298 µs | 3,354 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
-| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 183 ms | 5 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
-| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.6 ms | 42 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
-| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 2.1 µs | 480,480 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 54 µs | 18,375 | 15 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 690 µs | 1,449 | 22 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 15.1 ms | 66 | 19 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 18.3 ms | 55 | 14 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 704 µs | 1,420 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 512 µs | 1,953 | 20 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 75 µs | 13,401 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.3 ms | 45 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 301 µs | 3,321 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 24.5 ms | 41 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,076,774 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
 
 Takeaways:
 
-- **HTML** extracts at 14–24 MiB/s with peak heap 16–20x the input (was ~25x).
+- **HTML** extracts at 14–22 MiB/s with peak heap 16–20x the input (was ~25x).
 - **Deep nesting is linear**: 1000 nested `<div>`s take 0.5 ms (was 3.6 ms), and 64k nested
   `<div>`s take 2.4 ms (was 12.6 s).
 - **Boilerplate-heavy pages are cheap**: scripts, styles and nav are dropped at ~60 MiB/s.
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
index 9eeb17f..7fea9c9 100644
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/README.md
@@ -30,20 +30,20 @@ Design and metric definitions: `knowledge/operations/performance-results.md`.
 ## Latest baseline (vm, linux x86_64, 4 CPUs, 2026-10-27)
 
 20 iterations, 3 warmup, release. Full report:
-[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md).
+[`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.md).
 Last column: the 0.1.1 baseline ([`bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md`](results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793058767.md)).
 
 | Case | Input | Mean | Ops/s | Throughput | Allocs/op | Peak heap | Allocs / peak in 0.1.1 |
 |------|------:|-----:|------:|-----------:|----------:|----------:|------:|
-| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 59 µs | 16,840 | 14 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
-| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 632 µs | 1,583 | 24 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
-| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 16.4 ms | 61 | 18 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
-| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 14.2 ms | 70 | 18 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
-| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 696 µs | 1,436 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
-| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 483 µs | 2,069 | 22 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
-| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 77 µs | 13,047 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
-| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.9 ms | 44 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
-| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 298 µs | 3,354 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
-| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 183 ms | 5 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
-| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 23.6 ms | 42 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
-| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 2.1 µs | 480,480 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
+| HTML article (fixture) | 881 B | 54 µs | 18,375 | 15 MiB/s | 158 | 22 KiB | 213 / 28 KiB |
+| HTML blog post with nav/scripts | 15 KiB | 690 µs | 1,449 | 22 MiB/s | 2,505 | 241 KiB | 2,427 / 304 KiB |
+| HTML long docs page | 300 KiB | 15.1 ms | 66 | 19 MiB/s | 49,342 | 4.7 MiB | 47,578 / 7.5 MiB |
+| HTML 50 tables | 257 KiB | 18.3 ms | 55 | 14 MiB/s | 33,635 | 5.1 MiB | 50,349 / 8.6 MiB |
+| HTML mostly boilerplate | 45 KiB | 704 µs | 1,420 | 63 MiB/s | 66 | 252 KiB | 81 / 305 KiB |
+| HTML 1000 nested divs | 11 KiB | 512 µs | 1,953 | 20 MiB/s | 551 | 52 KiB | 442 / 147 KiB |
+| DOCX memo | 1.4 KiB | 75 µs | 13,401 | 18 MiB/s | 499 | 59 KiB | 733 / 93 KiB |
+| DOCX 400-section report | 9 KiB (262 KiB out) | 22.3 ms | 45 | 0.4 MiB/s | 136,866 | 3.9 MiB | 265,791 / 18.5 MiB |
+| XLSX 50×5 | 2.8 KiB | 301 µs | 3,321 | 9 MiB/s | 1,165 | 129 KiB | 1,668 / 129 KiB |
+| XLSX 3 sheets, 150k cells | 766 KiB | 172 ms | 6 | 4 MiB/s | 512,786 | 21.5 MiB | 782,800 / 24.9 MiB |
+| ODS 2000×8 | 70 KiB | 24.5 ms | 41 | 3 MiB/s | 72,498 | 3.0 MiB | 92,515 / 3.0 MiB |
+| Format sniffing (DOCX) | 9 KiB | 0.9 µs | 1,076,774 | n/a | 0 | 0 B | 0 / 0 B |
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 02cb231..0000000
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,522 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "timestamp": 1793067120,
-  "system": {
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-    "hostname": "vm",
-    "os": "linux",
-    "arch": "x86_64",
-    "cpus": 4,
-    "markkit_version": "0.1.1",
-    "git_commit": "d15598696ea9",
-    "profile": "release"
-  },
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-  "warmup": 3,
-  "peak_rss_bytes": 37609472,
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diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e7ff32a..0000000
--- a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793067120.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Markkit Benchmark Report
-
-## System Information
-
-- **Moniker**: `vm-linux-x86_64`
-- **OS / Arch**: linux / x86_64
-- **CPUs**: 4
-- **markkit**: 0.1.1 (`d15598696ea9`)
-- **Profile**: release
-- **Timestamp**: 1793067120
-- **Iterations**: 20 (warmup 3)
-- **Peak RSS**: 35.87 MiB
-
-## Summary
-
-12 cases, 262.789 ms total mean time per pass, 0 errors.
-
-Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. Throughput is input bytes over mean time.
-
-### HTML
-
-| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
-|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
-| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 315 B | 59.38 µs | 50.78 µs | ±16.43 µs | 16840 | 14.1 | 158 | 34.3 KiB | 21.6 KiB | - |
-| html_blog_post | 15.3 KiB | 11.7 KiB | 631.74 µs | 621.28 µs | ±32.95 µs | 1583 | 23.7 | 2505 | 337.1 KiB | 241.3 KiB | - |
-| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 235.0 KiB | 16.38 ms | 14.38 ms | ±5.16 ms | 61 | 17.9 | 49342 | 6.65 MiB | 4.73 MiB | - |
-| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 170.1 KiB | 14.19 ms | 13.91 ms | ±1.22 ms | 70 | 17.7 | 33635 | 6.78 MiB | 5.07 MiB | - |
-| html_boilerplate | 45.2 KiB | 191 B | 696.19 µs | 693.91 µs | ±23.43 µs | 1436 | 63.4 | 66 | 258.2 KiB | 251.9 KiB | - |
-| html_deep_nesting | 10.8 KiB | 5 B | 483.30 µs | 474.30 µs | ±26.97 µs | 2069 | 21.7 | 551 | 90.9 KiB | 52.1 KiB | - |
-
-### DOCX
-
-| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
-|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
-| docx_memo | 1.4 KiB | 636 B | 76.65 µs | 72.14 µs | ±12.63 µs | 13047 | 17.8 | 499 | 203.9 KiB | 59.3 KiB | - |
-| docx_report | 9.1 KiB | 262.3 KiB | 22.95 ms | 19.81 ms | ±6.63 ms | 44 | 0.4 | 136866 | 11.96 MiB | 3.91 MiB | - |
-
-### Spreadsheet
-
-| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
-|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
-| xlsx_small | 2.8 KiB | 2.7 KiB | 298.11 µs | 287.24 µs | ±39.10 µs | 3354 | 9.2 | 1165 | 650.7 KiB | 129.1 KiB | - |
-| xlsx_large | 765.8 KiB | 1.76 MiB | 183.43 ms | 174.79 ms | ±19.14 ms | 5 | 4.1 | 512786 | 37.56 MiB | 21.47 MiB | - |
-| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 162.5 KiB | 23.60 ms | 22.79 ms | ±3.23 ms | 42 | 2.9 | 72498 | 8.91 MiB | 3.03 MiB | - |
-
-### Detect
-
-| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
-|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
-| detect_docx_magic | 9.1 KiB | 0 B | 2.08 µs | 2.08 µs | ±14 ns | 480480 | 4261.0 | 0 | 0 B | 0 B | - |
diff --git a/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.json b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e9a2c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/markkit-bench/results/bench-vm-linux-x86_64-1793070312.json
@@ -0,0 +1,522 @@
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+# Markkit Benchmark Report
+
+## System Information
+
+- **Moniker**: `vm-linux-x86_64`
+- **OS / Arch**: linux / x86_64
+- **CPUs**: 4
+- **markkit**: 0.1.1 (`50076076e78a`)
+- **Profile**: release
+- **Timestamp**: 1793070312
+- **Iterations**: 20 (warmup 3)
+- **Peak RSS**: 35.98 MiB
+
+## Summary
+
+12 cases, 254.623 ms total mean time per pass, 0 errors.
+
+Allocations, allocated and peak heap are per single operation. Throughput is input bytes over mean time.
+
+### HTML
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| html_fixture_article | 881 B | 315 B | 54.42 µs | 51.96 µs | ±6.23 µs | 18375 | 15.4 | 158 | 34.3 KiB | 21.6 KiB | - |
+| html_blog_post | 15.3 KiB | 11.7 KiB | 690.18 µs | 659.58 µs | ±89.00 µs | 1449 | 21.7 | 2505 | 337.1 KiB | 241.3 KiB | - |
+| html_docs_page | 299.6 KiB | 235.0 KiB | 15.09 ms | 14.47 ms | ±1.73 ms | 66 | 19.4 | 49342 | 6.65 MiB | 4.73 MiB | - |
+| html_tables | 256.6 KiB | 170.1 KiB | 18.27 ms | 18.21 ms | ±490.17 µs | 55 | 13.7 | 33635 | 6.78 MiB | 5.07 MiB | - |
+| html_boilerplate | 45.2 KiB | 191 B | 704.19 µs | 693.93 µs | ±44.46 µs | 1420 | 62.7 | 66 | 258.2 KiB | 251.9 KiB | - |
+| html_deep_nesting | 10.8 KiB | 5 B | 511.98 µs | 500.03 µs | ±41.99 µs | 1953 | 20.5 | 551 | 90.9 KiB | 52.1 KiB | - |
+
+### DOCX
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| docx_memo | 1.4 KiB | 636 B | 74.62 µs | 71.08 µs | ±8.79 µs | 13401 | 18.3 | 499 | 203.9 KiB | 59.3 KiB | - |
+| docx_report | 9.1 KiB | 262.3 KiB | 22.28 ms | 20.05 ms | ±4.47 ms | 45 | 0.4 | 136866 | 11.96 MiB | 3.91 MiB | - |
+
+### Spreadsheet
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| xlsx_small | 2.8 KiB | 2.7 KiB | 301.12 µs | 291.13 µs | ±17.90 µs | 3321 | 9.1 | 1165 | 650.7 KiB | 129.1 KiB | - |
+| xlsx_large | 765.8 KiB | 1.76 MiB | 172.15 ms | 165.09 ms | ±12.27 ms | 6 | 4.3 | 512786 | 37.56 MiB | 21.47 MiB | - |
+| ods_medium | 69.8 KiB | 162.5 KiB | 24.50 ms | 22.30 ms | ±5.00 ms | 41 | 2.8 | 72498 | 8.91 MiB | 3.03 MiB | - |
+
+### Detect
+
+| Benchmark | Input | Output | Mean | Median | StdDev | Ops/s | MiB/s | Allocs | Allocated | Peak heap | Errors |
+|-----------|------:|-------:|-----:|-------:|-------:|------:|------:|-------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
+| detect_docx_magic | 9.1 KiB | 0 B | 929 ns | 927 ns | ±16 ns | 1076774 | 9549.1 | 0 | 0 B | 0 B | - |