Awesome
Parser Benchmark for Oxc, Swc and Biome
The purpose of this benchmark is for people who wants to evaluate and compare the performance characteristics of these parsers.
Summary
Oxc's parser is at least 3x faster than swc and 5x faster than Biome.
Please note that it is not an apple to apple comparison with Biome. Biome's parser produces a CST instead of an AST, which requires a lot more work.
CPU
Codspeed Measurement
Codspeed measures performance by cpu instructions.
Mac i7 6 cores
<img src="./bar-graph.svg">Mac mini M2 8 cores
cal.com.tsx
oxc | swc | biome | |
---|---|---|---|
no-drop | 4.0 ms (1.00x) | 14.0 ms (3.50x) | 18.7 ms (4.68x) |
parallel | 7.4 ms (1.00x) | 26.4 ms (3.56x) | 38.7 ms (5.21x) |
single-thread | 4.0 ms (1.00x) | 14.9 ms (3.73x) | 20.1 ms (5.04x) |
typescript.js
oxc | swc | biome | |
---|---|---|---|
no-drop | 30.3 ms (1.00x) | 100.3 ms (3.31x) | 149.7 ms (4.94x) |
parallel | 52.0 ms (1.00x) | 164.5 ms (3.17x) | 296.5 ms (5.71x) |
single-thread | 29.8 ms (1.00x) | 108.0 ms (3.62x) | 159.5 ms (5.34x) |
MacBook Pro M3 Max
cal.com.tsx
oxc | swc | biome | |
---|---|---|---|
no-drop | 3.4 ms (1.00x) | 13.4 ms (3.99x) | 16.7 ms (4.97x) |
parallel | 5.8 ms (1.00x) | 23.8 ms (4.14x) | 30.1 ms (5.23x) |
single-thread | 3.4 ms (1.00x) | 14.4 ms (4.28x) | 18.3 ms (5.42x) |
typescript.js
oxc | swc | biome | |
---|---|---|---|
no-drop | 26.3 ms (1.00x) | 84.1 ms (3.20x) | 130.1 ms (4.94x) |
parallel | 36.1 ms (1.00x) | 126.3 ms (3.50x) | 225.9 ms (6.26x) |
single-thread | 26.4 ms (1.00x) | 91.0 ms (3.45x) | 139.3 ms (5.28x) |
Run benchmark locally
Run the following command on your machine for replication.
cargo bench
Generate the table
pnpm i
pnpm run table
Maximum Resident Set Size
./memory.sh
./files/cal.com.tsx
oxc 11.5 mb (1.00x)
swc 16.6 mb (1.44x)
biome 22.5 mb (1.95x)
./files/typescript.js
oxc 68.8 mb (1.00x)
swc 92.0 mb (1.34x)
biome 117.4 mb (1.70x)
Setup
- Uses
mimalloc
as the global allocator - Uses the following release profile
[profile.release]
opt-level = 3
lto = "fat"
codegen-units = 1
strip = "symbols"
debug = false
panic = "abort"
single-thread
This is the standard benchmark run in a single thread.
group.bench_with_input(id, &source, |b, source| {
b.iter(|| Self::parse(source))
});
no-drop
This uses the iter_with_large_drop
function, which does not take AST drop time into account.
Notice there is only a 0.3ms difference for oxc, but 7ms difference for swc.
AST drop time can become a bottleneck in applications such as as bundler, where there are a few thousands of files need to be parsed.
group.bench_with_input(id, &source, |b, source| {
b.iter_with_large_drop(|| Self::parse(source))
});
parallel
This benchmark uses the total number of physical cores as the total number of files to parse per bench iteration. For example it parses 6 files in parallel on my Mac i7 6 cores.
This can indicate the existence of global resource contention.
let cpus = num_cpus::get_physical();
group.bench_with_input(id, &source, |b, source| {
b.iter(|| {
(0..cpus).into_par_iter().for_each(|_| {
Self::parse(source);
});
})
});