Clone this repository, and then run these commands:
npm install
export PATH="${HOME}/.jsvu/bin:${PATH}"
npm run benchJetStream2/SeaMonster/inspector-json-payload.js contains a 7.33-MB JavaScript array literal containing 846 object literals. This entire array literal can be serialized to JSON and turned into a 8.2-MB JavaScript string literal, which can be passed to JSON.parse() to produce an equivalent array.
This repository tests each approach in 100 different contexts in the dumbest possible way, i.e. by simply invoking d8 a 100 times per script. That is, we perform 100 cold loads, and measure everything (parsing, compilation, and execution) until the program halts.
On my workstation (HP Z840 with 2 × 14-core Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 processors @ 2.6GHz, 35MB Cache + 128GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM), I got the following results:
| JS literal | JSON.parse |
Speed-up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| V8 v7.5 | 23.765 s | 15.766 s | 1.5× |
| V8 v7.6 | 23.639 s | 14.102 s | 1.7× |
| V8 v7.7 | 23.489 s | 13.886 s | 1.7× |
| Chakra v1.11.10.0 | 24.999 s | 16.547 s | 1.5× |
| JavaScriptCore v246878 | 28.503 s | 14.315 s | 2.0× |
| SpiderMonkey v68.0b13 | 25.554 s | 21.174 s | 1.2× |
For V8 specifically, you can get detailed metrics for a single run by using --runtime-call-stats:
$ v8 --runtime-call-stats out/js.js | grep Parse
ParseProgram 124.33ms 47.00% 1 0.00%
$ v8 --runtime-call-stats out/json.js | grep Parse
JsonParse 47.67ms 28.29% 1 0.07%
ParseProgram 43.17ms 25.62% 1 0.07%
The source files in this repository are released under the Apache 2.0 license, as detailed in the LICENSE file.
The scripts in this repository dynamically download JetStream2/SeaMonster/inspector-json-payload.js, which has its own license:
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This license also applies to the generated *.js files produced by the scripts in this repository.