endel/msgpack-benchmark

This repository aims to benchmark each msgpack implementation for JavaScript.

msgpack benchmarks for JavaScript

This repository aims to benchmark each msgpack implementation for JavaScript.

There is four input files to encode/decode.

• datatypes - 1305 bytes
• small - 68 bytes
• medium - 250 bytes
• large - 9237 bytes

MsgPack implementations:

• msgpackr
• @msgpack/msgpack
• msgpack
• msgpack-js-v5
• msgpack-lite
• msgpack5
• notepack
• notepack.io
• what-the-pack

Benchmarks

Results are using Node v16.14.0 on MacBook Pro (M1, 2020).

sample-datatypes.json

• Encoding winner: msgpackr
• Decoding winner: JSON

Encoding	Decoding
Implementation ops/sec msgpackr 519,030 JSON 328,367 notepack.io 285,528 what-the-pack (browser) 284,308 @msgpack/msgpack 260,240 what-the-pack 254,762 notepack 238,226 notepack.io (browser) 199,181 msgpack-lite 155,759 msgpack5 73,907 msgpack-js-v5 37,626	Implementation ops/sec JSON 489,645 msgpackr 274,537 @msgpack/msgpack 210,725 what-the-pack (browser) 159,898 what-the-pack 159,527 notepack.io (browser) 149,917 notepack.io 149,272 notepack 142,453 msgpack-js-v5 134,128 msgpack-lite 92,610 msgpack5 66,461

sample-small.json

• Encoding winner: msgpackr
• Decoding winner: msgpackr

Encoding	Decoding
Implementation ops/sec msgpackr 3,296,833 notepack.io 2,754,635 JSON 2,447,656 notepack 2,380,863 what-the-pack (browser) 2,356,787 what-the-pack 1,994,327 @msgpack/msgpack 1,454,569 notepack.io (browser) 1,453,012 msgpack-lite 628,253 msgpack-js-v5 617,212 msgpack5 425,951	Implementation ops/sec msgpackr 4,037,031 JSON 2,498,714 notepack 2,390,280 @msgpack/msgpack 2,256,549 notepack.io (browser) 2,076,171 what-the-pack 1,809,675 what-the-pack (browser) 1,795,122 notepack.io 1,768,158 msgpack-js-v5 1,487,882 msgpack-lite 872,539 msgpack5 629,429

sample-medium.json

• Encoding winner: JSON
• Decoding winner: JSON

Encoding	Decoding
Implementation ops/sec JSON 1,452,513 msgpackr 1,319,836 notepack.io 910,529 what-the-pack (browser) 802,090 notepack.io (browser) 743,235 notepack 701,198 what-the-pack 680,024 @msgpack/msgpack 651,136 msgpack-lite 324,384 msgpack5 207,193 msgpack-js-v5 169,692	Implementation ops/sec JSON 1,302,597 msgpackr 1,148,712 @msgpack/msgpack 908,896 notepack.io (browser) 622,931 what-the-pack (browser) 500,688 notepack.io 495,854 what-the-pack 490,752 notepack 482,038 msgpack-js-v5 417,884 msgpack-lite 268,590 msgpack5 236,800

sample-large.json

• Encoding winner: JSON
• Decoding winner: JSON

Encoding	Decoding
Implementation ops/sec JSON 68,796 msgpackr 51,768 notepack.io 32,315 what-the-pack (browser) 31,649 notepack 29,389 notepack.io (browser) 29,194 what-the-pack 28,273 @msgpack/msgpack 28,154 msgpack-lite 22,422 msgpack5 13,324 msgpack-js-v5 8,006	Implementation ops/sec JSON 77,276 msgpackr 67,232 @msgpack/msgpack 26,583 notepack.io 25,326 what-the-pack 24,755 what-the-pack (browser) 24,589 notepack 23,734 msgpack-js-v5 21,752 notepack.io (browser) 19,927 msgpack-lite 12,912 msgpack5 12,315

Running the benchmarks:

npm install
npm start

License

MIT