Run results for: JSON.parse() vs. js-yaml

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.parse()

7.9M/s

js-yaml

924K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.parse()	7,879,540 Ops/sec
js-yaml	923,582 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-yaml/3.12.0/js-yaml.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var jsonString = '{"key1": "val1", "key2": 7}';
var yamlString = 'key1: val1\nkey2: 7';

Tests:

JSON.parse()
var dummy = JSON.parse(jsonString);
js-yaml
var dummy = jsyaml.safeLoad(yamlString);