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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.parse()

4.2M/s

js-yaml

375K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.parse()	4,206,845 Ops/sec
js-yaml	375,253 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: