Benchmark: msgpackr vs. JSON Encode and Decode

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/msgpackr@1.7.2/dist/index.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var stringData = {"glossary":{"title":"example glossary","GlossDiv":{"title":"S","GlossList":{"GlossEntry":{"ID":"SGML","SortAs":"SGML","GlossTerm":"Standard Generalized Markup Language","Acronym":"SGML","Abbrev":"ISO 8879:1986","GlossDef":{"para":"A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.","GlossSeeAlso":["GML","XML"]},"GlossSee":"markup"}}}}};
var numberData = [
  [1, 2, 3, 4, -1, true, null],
  [3, 6, 5, 4,  1, false, 7],
  [3, 2, 8, 1,  0, true, 0],
  [10, 11, 12, 13,  14, false, true],
  [15, 16, 17, 18, 19, true, null],
  [20, 21, 22, 23,  24, false, 7],
  [25, 26, 27, 28,  29, true, 0],
  100, 200, 300,
  [
    [1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 1]
  ]
];
var packer = new msgpackr.Packr({
    // shouldShareStructure(keys){ return true },
    // maxSharedStructures: 1024,
    // randomAccessStructure: true,
    structures: []
});
var jsonEncodedStrings = JSON.stringify(stringData),
    jsonEncodedNumbers = JSON.stringify(numberData),
    msgpackEncodedStrings = packer.pack(stringData),
    msgpackEncodedNumbers = packer.pack(numberData);

Tests:

MsgPack Strings Encode
var result = packer.pack(stringData);
JSON Strings Encode
var result = JSON.stringify(stringData);
MsgPack Numbers Encode
var result = packer.pack(numberData);
JSON Numbers Encode
var result = JSON.stringify(numberData);
MsgPack Numbers Decode
var result = packer.unpack(msgpackEncodedNumbers);
JSON Numbers Decode
var result = JSON.parse(jsonEncodedNumbers);
JSON String Decode
var result = JSON.parse(jsonEncodedStrings);
MsgPack String Decode
var result = packer.unpack(msgpackEncodedStrings);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
MsgPack Strings Encode
JSON Strings Encode
MsgPack Numbers Encode
JSON Numbers Encode
MsgPack Numbers Decode
JSON Numbers Decode
JSON String Decode
MsgPack String Decode

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 24 days ago)

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Test name	Executions per second
MsgPack Strings Encode	444805.2 Ops/sec
JSON Strings Encode	669129.7 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Encode	349847.3 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Encode	537325.3 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Decode	695784.5 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Decode	846405.9 Ops/sec
JSON String Decode	553258.8 Ops/sec
MsgPack String Decode	384149.5 Ops/sec

msgpackr vs. JSON Encode and Decode (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: MsgPack Strings Encode vs JSON Strings Encode vs MsgPack Numbers Encode vs JSON Numbers Encode vs MsgPack Numbers Decode vs JSON Numbers Decode vs JSON String Decode vs MsgPack String Decode

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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MsgPack Strings Encode

JSON Strings Encode

MsgPack Numbers Encode

JSON Numbers Encode

MsgPack Numbers Decode

JSON Numbers Decode

JSON String Decode

MsgPack String Decode

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A