Run results for: msgpackr vs. JSON Encode and Decode

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.2.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

JSON Strings Encode

2.5M/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

1.1M/s

JSON String Decode

902K/s

JSON Numbers Encode

788K/s

MsgPack Numbers Decode

772K/s

JSON Numbers Decode

621K/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

538K/s

MsgPack String Decode

475K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON Strings Encode	2,536,898 Ops/sec
MsgPack Strings Encode	1,129,405 Ops/sec
JSON String Decode	901,744 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Encode	787,706 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Decode	771,942 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Decode	620,941 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Encode	538,444 Ops/sec
MsgPack String Decode	474,698 Ops/sec

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);