node/benchmark
Theodor Steiner 10c1ab00fd
benchmark: replace table in docs with description of file tree structure
The markdown table in `benchmark/README.md` has grown stale, no
longer providing an overview over all existing benchmarks. As it has
proven difficult to keep an exhaustive listing of available benchmarks
up to date, this commit provides a description of how the directory is
structured instead.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46991
Reviewed-By: Kohei Ueno <kohei.ueno119@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
2023-03-11 09:53:50 +00:00
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assert assert,util: improve deep equal comparison performance 2023-02-20 15:47:06 +01:00
async_hooks async_hooks: add async local storage propagation benchmarks 2023-02-03 21:12:17 +00:00
blob benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
buffers benchmark: split Buffer.byteLength benchmark 2023-02-26 19:02:42 +01:00
child_process benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
cluster benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
crypto benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/crypto 2023-02-10 00:54:53 +00:00
dgram benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
diagnostics_channel benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
dns benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
domain benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
error benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
es benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
esm benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
events benchmark: add benchmark for EventTarget add and remove 2023-02-26 05:30:26 +00:00
fixtures benchmark: make benchmarks runnable in older versions of Node.js 2022-12-08 14:50:18 +00:00
fs permission: fix spawnSync permission check 2023-03-07 13:07:20 -03:00
http benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/http 2023-02-12 16:32:00 +00:00
http2 benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/http2 2023-02-09 23:15:52 +00:00
https benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
misc benchmark: fix worker startup benchmark 2023-02-23 14:10:00 +00:00
module benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/module 2023-02-03 11:45:13 +01:00
napi benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
net benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/net 2023-02-03 11:43:15 +01:00
os benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
path benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/path 2023-02-14 17:09:42 +00:00
perf_hooks benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
permission src,process: add permission model 2023-02-23 18:11:51 +00:00
policy benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
process benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/process 2023-02-05 11:00:09 +00:00
querystring benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
readline benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
streams benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
string_decoder benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
timers benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
tls benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
url benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/url 2023-02-10 00:54:40 +00:00
util benchmark: stablize encode benchmark 2023-03-07 22:45:40 +01:00
v8 benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
vm benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
webstreams benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
worker lib: do not crash using workers with disabled shared array buffers 2023-02-18 11:18:04 +01:00
zlib benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
_benchmark_progress.js
_cli.js
_cli.R
_http-benchmarkers.js benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
_test-double-benchmarker.js
.eslintrc.yaml benchmark: add trailing commas in benchmark/path 2023-02-14 17:09:42 +00:00
common.js benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
compare.js benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
compare.R
README.md benchmark: replace table in docs with description of file tree structure 2023-03-11 09:53:50 +00:00
run.js benchmark: add trailing commas 2023-01-29 19:13:35 +01:00
scatter.js
scatter.R

Node.js Core Benchmarks

This folder contains code and data used to measure performance of different Node.js implementations and different ways of writing JavaScript run by the built-in JavaScript engine.

For a detailed guide on how to write and run benchmarks in this directory, see the guide on benchmarks.

Table of Contents

File tree structure

Directories

Benchmarks testing the performance of a single node submodule are placed into a directory with the corresponding name, so that they can be executed by submodule or individually. Benchmarks that span multiple submodules may either be placed into the misc directory or into a directory named after the feature they benchmark. E.g. benchmarks for various new ECMAScript features and their pre-ES2015 counterparts are placed in a directory named es. Fixtures that are not specific to a certain benchmark but can be reused throughout the benchmark suite should be placed in the fixtures directory.

Other Top-level files

The top-level files include common dependencies of the benchmarks and the tools for launching benchmarks and visualizing their output. The actual benchmark scripts should be placed in their corresponding directories.

  • _benchmark_progress.js: implements the progress bar displayed when running compare.js
  • _cli.js: parses the command line arguments passed to compare.js, run.js and scatter.js
  • _cli.R: parses the command line arguments passed to compare.R
  • _http-benchmarkers.js: selects and runs external tools for benchmarking the http subsystem.
  • common.js: see Common API.
  • compare.js: command line tool for comparing performance between different Node.js binaries.
  • compare.R: R script for statistically analyzing the output of compare.js
  • run.js: command line tool for running individual benchmark suite(s).
  • scatter.js: command line tool for comparing the performance between different parameters in benchmark configurations, for example to analyze the time complexity.
  • scatter.R: R script for visualizing the output of scatter.js with scatter plots.

Common API

The common.js module is used by benchmarks for consistency across repeated tasks. It has a number of helpful functions and properties to help with writing benchmarks.

createBenchmark(fn, configs[, options])

See the guide on writing benchmarks.

default_http_benchmarker

The default benchmarker used to run HTTP benchmarks. See the guide on writing HTTP benchmarks.

PORT

The default port used to run HTTP benchmarks. See the guide on writing HTTP benchmarks.

sendResult(data)

Used in special benchmarks that can't use createBenchmark and the object it returns to accomplish what they need. This function reports timing data to the parent process (usually created by running compare.js, run.js or scatter.js).