Run results for: JSON.parse() vs. js-yaml

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Browser: Firefox 62

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
JSON.parse()	1787275.5 Ops/sec
js-yaml	204477.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-yaml/3.12.0/js-yaml.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var jsonString = '{"key1": "val1", "key2": 7}';
var yamlString = 'key1: val1\nkey2: 7';

Tests: