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Introducing fast_html

After 2 years of great service from HtmlSanitizeEx in Pleroma, we started to work on a faster HTML sanitization engine because people were doing things like making multi-megabyte posts which HtmlSanitizeEx has had problems handling.

The first part of this work was released for the general public today as the fast_html module, a C-Node which wraps the Myhtml library.

Elixir users may be familiar with Myhtmlex, another module which wraps the Myhtml library as a NIF or C-node, but fast_html was forked and rewritten from the ground up to be as performant a C-node as possible.

In most synthetic benchmarks, fast_html outperforms both the Myhtmlex and html5ever NIFs and uses the newer ei library over the legacy erl_interface one.