README.md

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