Benchmark: parse nested keys

HTML Preparation code:

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Script Preparation code:

/*your preparation JavaScript code goes here
To execute async code during the script preparation, wrap it as function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction, example:*/
function parseKeys_1(path) {
  return path.split(".").flatMap((key) => {
      const match = key.match(/^([^[\]]+)(\[(\d+)\])?$/);
      if (!match) {
        throw new Error(`nestedProperty.set(). Invalid path segment: ${key}`);
      }
      return [match[1], match[3]].filter(Boolean);
    });
}

function parseKeys_2(path) {
  return path
    .replace(/\[(\w+)\]/g, '.$1') // convert [0] to .0
    .split('.')                   // split by dots
    .filter(Boolean);  
}

function parsePath(path) {
  const keys = [];
  let start = 0;

  for (let i = 0; i < path.length; i++) {
    const c = path[i];

    if (c === '.' || c === '[') {
      if (i > start) keys.push(path.substring(start, i));

      if (c === '[') {
        const close = path.indexOf(']', i);
        if (close === -1) throw new Error("Unmatched [");
        keys.push(path.substring(i + 1, close));
        i = close;
      }

      start = i + 1;
    }
  }

  if (start < path.length) keys.push(path.substring(start));
  return keys;
}

Tests:

with regex
parseKeys_1("obj.items[0].value")
with regex 2
parseKeys_2("obj.items[0].value")
without regex
parsePath("obj.items[0].value")

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
with regex
with regex 2
without regex

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 9 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 141 on Windows

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without regex

17.7M/s

with regex 2

5.2M/s

with regex

3.7M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ without regex	17,701,470 Ops/sec
with regex 2	5,206,278 Ops/sec
with regex	3,665,375 Ops/sec

parse nested keys (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `with regex vs with regex 2 vs without regex`

Created: 9 months ago by: Registered User

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with regex

with regex 2

without regex

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

parse nested keys (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: with regex vs with regex 2 vs without regex

Created: 9 months ago by: Registered User

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with regex

with regex 2

without regex

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Comparing performance of: `with regex vs with regex 2 vs without regex`