Run results for: msgpack vs. JSON

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/117.0.5938.108 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 117

Operating system: iOS 18.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

JSON Strings Encode

4.2M/s

JSON Numbers Encode

2.6M/s

MsgPack Numbers Encode

336K/s

MsgPack Strings Encode

221K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON Strings Encode	4,192,060 Ops/sec
JSON Numbers Encode	2,643,351 Ops/sec
MsgPack Numbers Encode	335,725 Ops/sec
MsgPack Strings Encode	220,980 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@msgpack/msgpack@2.7.2/dist.es5+umd/msgpack.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 jsonEncodedStrings = JSON.stringify(stringData),
    jsonEncodedNumbers = JSON.stringify(numberData),
    msgpackEncodedStrings = MessagePack.encode(stringData),
    msgpackEncodedNumbers = MessagePack.encode(numberData);

Tests:

MsgPack Strings Encode
var result = MessagePack.encode(stringData);
JSON Strings Encode
var result = JSON.stringify(stringData);
MsgPack Numbers Encode
var result = MessagePack.encode(numberData);
JSON Numbers Encode
var result = JSON.stringify(numberData);