Benchmark: hash-sum vs object-hash vs object.entries

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hash-sum@2.0.0/hash-sum.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/object-hash@2.0.3/dist/object_hash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var context1 = {
  title: 'fish',
  position: 1
}

var context2 = {
  title: 'fish',
  position: 1
}

Tests:

Sum
sum(context1) === sum(context2)
Object-hash
objectHash(context1) === objectHash(context2)
Object.entries
Object.entries(context1).sort().toString() === Object.entries(context2).sort().toString()

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Sum
Object-hash
Object.entries

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 128 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
Sum	433706.0 Ops/sec
Object-hash	24264.0 Ops/sec
Object.entries	1060287.8 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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Let's break down the provided benchmark definition and test cases.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is comparing three approaches to hash sums:

1. `hash-sum`: A library that provides a simple way to compute the sum of a JSON object.
2. `object-hash`: Another library that computes the hash of a JSON object.
3. `Object.entries`: A built-in JavaScript method that returns an array of key-value pairs in an object.

**Options Compared**

The benchmark is comparing the performance of these three approaches:

* `hash-sum` and `object-hash`: These libraries are designed to compute hashes, whereas `Object.entries` is designed for iterating over objects.
* `sum` vs `Object.entries`: This comparison tests whether the built-in `Object.entries` method can provide a comparable sum function.

**Pros and Cons**

1. **hash-sum**:
	* Pros: Simple to use, efficient, and well-tested.
	* Cons: Limited to computing hashes, not sums.
2. **object-hash**:
	* Pros: Can be used for both hashes and sums with some modifications.
	* Cons: May have additional overhead compared to `hash-sum`.
3. **Object.entries**:
	* Pros: Built-in method, no additional dependencies required.
	* Cons: Requires manual implementation of the sum function.

**Library Descriptions**

1. **hash-sum**: A library that provides a simple way to compute the sum of a JSON object. It uses the `JSON.stringify()` method to convert the object to a string and then computes the sum using the `Buffer` API.
2. **object-hash**: Another library that computes the hash of a JSON object. It uses a custom algorithm to generate a hash value from the object's key-value pairs.

**Special JS Feature/Syntax**

None mentioned in this benchmark definition.

**Other Alternatives**

For computing hashes and sums, other libraries or methods could be used, such as:

* `crypto` module (built-in JavaScript): provides various cryptographic functions, including hash functions.
* `lodash.sum()` (third-party library): a utility function for summing arrays or objects.
* Manual implementation using `JSON.stringify()`, `Buffer` API, and bitwise operations.

For built-in methods like `Object.entries`, other alternatives could be explored, such as:

* Using `for...in` loop to iterate over object properties.
* Utilizing `Object.keys()` and `reduce()` method to compute the sum.
* Implementing a custom iterator using `Symbol.iterator`.

Related benchmarks:

hash-sum vs object-hash vs object.entries (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Sum vs Object-hash vs Object.entries

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Sum

Object-hash

Object.entries

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):