Run results for: js-yaml vs JSON.parse

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

JSON.parse

5.2M/s

js-yaml

344K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.parse	5,155,104 Ops/sec
js-yaml	344,113 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-yaml/4.1.0/js-yaml.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: