Benchmark: msgpackr vs. JSON v2

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/msgpackr@1.11.2/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 jsonEncodedStrings = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(stringData)),
    jsonEncodedNumbers = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(numberData)),
    msgpackEncodedStrings = msgpackr.unpack(msgpackr.pack(stringData)),
    msgpackEncodedNumbers = msgpack.unpack(msgpackr.pack(numberData));

Tests:

MsgPack Strings Encode
var result = msgpackr.unpack(msgpackr.pack(stringData));
JSON Strings Encode
var result = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(stringData));
MsgPack Numbers Encode
var result = msgpackr.unpack(msgpackr.pack(numberData));
JSON Numbers Encode
var result = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(numberData));

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Mobile Results:

Chrome 5 runs

JSON Strings Encode

338K/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

305K/s

JSON Numbers Encode

277K/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

74K/s

Fastest: JSON Strings Encode (4.5x faster)

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✓ JSON Strings Encode: 338,339 ops/sec
• MsgPack Numbers Encode: 304,969 ops/sec
• JSON Numbers Encode: 277,173 ops/sec
• MsgPack Strings Encode: 74,495 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

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 8 months ago)

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JSON Strings Encode

679K/s

JSON Numbers Encode

599K/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

548K/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

351K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON Strings Encode	679,381 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Encode	599,297 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Encode	547,953 Ops/sec
MsgPack Strings Encode	350,697 Ops/sec

msgpackr vs. JSON v2 (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `MsgPack Strings Encode vs JSON Strings Encode vs MsgPack Numbers Encode vs JSON Numbers Encode`

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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MsgPack Strings Encode

JSON Strings Encode

MsgPack Numbers Encode

JSON Numbers Encode

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Mobile Results:

Chrome 5 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

msgpackr vs. JSON v2 (version: 1)

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

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

MsgPack Strings Encode

JSON Strings Encode

MsgPack Numbers Encode

JSON Numbers Encode

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 5 community runs

Mobile Results:

Chrome 5 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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