Run results for: fflate vs lz-string vs shorty with long string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

decompress fflate

25K/s

decompress lz-string

2K/s

compress fflate

2K/s

compress lz-string

254/s

decompress shorty

102/s

compress shorty

76/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ decompress fflate	25,102 Ops/sec
decompress lz-string	2,406 Ops/sec
compress fflate	1,603 Ops/sec
compress lz-string	254 Ops/sec
decompress shorty	102 Ops/sec
compress shorty	76 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/fflate@0.8.0"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fflate@0.8.0/umd/index.js"></script>

<script src="https://enkimute.github.io/res/shorty.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lz-string/1.5.0/lz-string.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var string = `[{"position":[0.4053397288042788,0.9161322508717471],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.032885732668610945,0.5217127089309777],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.046501222070234105,0.4416303631871801],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.501956817885332,0.26260992265552496],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.3972093640290386,0.2237804084367898],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.4171841396793452,0.7250318425335418],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.10370657307033793,0.8338842943449913],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.760216361566781,0.4391116386058227],"alias":"player11"}, {"position":[0.31942962258914376,0.3931480967639178],"alias":"player11"}]`;
var shorty = new Shorty()

for (let x = 0; x < 5; x++) {
    string = string + string;
}

var buf = fflate.strToU8(string);

var fflateCompressed = fflate.compressSync(buf, {
    level: 6,
    mem: 8
});
var lzStringCompressed = LZString.compressToUTF16(string);
var shortyCompressed = shorty.deflate(string)

Tests:

compress fflate
// The default compression method is gzip // Increasing mem may increase performance at the cost of memory // The mem ranges from 0 to 12, where 4 is the default fflate.compressSync(buf, { level: 6, mem: 8 });
compress lz-string
LZString.compressToUTF16(string);
compress shorty
shorty.deflate(string)
decompress lz-string
LZString.decompressFromUTF16(lzStringCompressed);
decompress shorty
shorty.inflate(shortyCompressed)
decompress fflate
fflate.decompressSync(fflateCompressed);