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);

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 26 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 26 runs

JSON Strings Encode

1.6M/s

MsgPack Numbers Decode

1.5M/s

JSON Numbers Encode

1.1M/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

1.0M/s

MsgPack String Decode

904K/s

JSON String Decode

901K/s

JSON Numbers Decode

856K/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

669K/s

Fastest: JSON Strings Encode (2.3x faster)

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✓ JSON Strings Encode: 1,557,553 ops/sec
• MsgPack Numbers Decode: 1,493,822 ops/sec
• JSON Numbers Encode: 1,057,112 ops/sec
• MsgPack Numbers Encode: 1,011,807 ops/sec
• MsgPack String Decode: 903,543 ops/sec
• JSON String Decode: 900,700 ops/sec
• JSON Numbers Decode: 855,983 ops/sec
• MsgPack Strings Encode: 668,829 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

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

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/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 138 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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JSON Strings Encode

5.2M/s

JSON Numbers Encode

3.3M/s

MsgPack Numbers Decode

2.1M/s

MsgPack String Decode

2.0M/s

JSON Numbers Decode

1.7M/s

JSON String Decode

1.7M/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

1.4M/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

1.3M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON Strings Encode	5,150,769 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Encode	3,300,693 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Decode	2,056,593 Ops/sec
MsgPack String Decode	2,042,407 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Decode	1,699,705 Ops/sec
JSON String Decode	1,670,133 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Encode	1,422,884 Ops/sec
MsgPack Strings Encode	1,328,965 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: 3 years 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

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 26 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 26 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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: 3 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest 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

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 26 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 26 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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