Measure the difference between two strings
Implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
$ npm install leven
const leven = require('leven');
leven('cat', 'cow');
//=> 2$ npm run bench
50 words, length max=15 min=5 avr=8.4
476,628 op/s » fastest-levenshtein
427,831 op/s » fast-levenshtein
171,965 op/s » js-levenshtein
136,828 op/s » leven
130,892 op/s » talisman
134,643 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance
71,828 op/s » levenshtein-component
42,189 op/s » ld
32,185 op/s » levenshtein
27,428 op/s » levdist
4,014 op/s » natural
20 sentences, length max=106 min=30 avr=64.4
49,949 op/s » fastest-levenshtein
48,797 op/s » fast-levenshtein
8,871 op/s » js-levenshtein
5,295 op/s » leven
5,812 op/s » talisman
4,920 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance
2,867 op/s » levenshtein-component
1,582 op/s » ld
1,651 op/s » levenshtein
1,376 op/s » levdist
190 op/s » natural
10 paragraphs, length max=565 min=186 avr=340
3,578 op/s » fastest-levenshtein
3,439 op/s » fast-levenshtein
583 op/s » js-levenshtein
355 op/s » leven
374 op/s » talisman
341 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance
189 op/s » levenshtein-component
91 op/s » ld
102 op/s » levenshtein
89 op/s » levdist
5 op/s » natural
- leven-cli - CLI for this module
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