OSH Parser Performance

We time $sh -n $file for various files under various shells, and repeat then run under cachegrind for stable metrics.

Source code: oil/benchmarks/osh-parser.sh

Raw files

Summary

Instructions Per Line (via cachegrind)

Lower numbers are generally better, but each shell recognizes a different language, and OSH uses a more thorough parsing algorithm. In thousands of "I refs".

shell label total lines thousand irefs per line
bash 118,863 15.1
dash 111,674 2.3
osh-native 118,863 13.2
osh-native-souffle 118,863 11.6

(zsh isn't measured because zsh -n unexpectedly forks.)

Average Parsing Rate, Measured on Two Machines (lines/ms)

Shell startup time is included in the elapsed time measurements, but long files are chosen to minimize its effect.

shell label total lines host no-host
dash 111,674 2,702
bash 118,863 710
osh-native-souffle 118,863 486
osh-native 118,863 449
osh-cpython 118,863 12

Per-File Measurements

Time and Memory

shell label elapsed ms user ms sys ms max rss MB num lines filename
dash 2 2 0 1 2,698 Build.sh
bash 5 2 2 3 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native-souffle 7 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 269 249 20 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 0 2 1 2,512 abuild
bash 5 3 3 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 8 8 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 356 344 12 21 2,512 abuild
dash 8 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 40 31 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 44 36 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,768 1,728 40 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 77 76 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 135 123 12 51 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 146 121 24 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,165 5,120 44 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 5 3 3 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 6 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 7 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 262 245 16 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 0 4 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 6 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 249 210 39 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 17 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 15 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 20 20 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 829 800 28 28 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 3 3 0 3 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 93 80 12 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 0 4 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 99 71 27 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 16 8 8 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 7 11 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 745 712 32 27 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh

Instruction Counts

shell label irefs num lines filename
dash 6,416,010 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native-souffle 33,384,189 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,920,083 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 39,420,799 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 45,796,655 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 244,870,683 20,489 configure
osh-native 279,209,899 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 792,804,515 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 889,962,785 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,932,558 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,997,401 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 25,254,445 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 29,264,951 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 98,853,633 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 114,627,680 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 172,930,991 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 3,166,564 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 10,908,679 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,935,263 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 25,314,918 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 4,357,271 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 12,808,316 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 14,039,874 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 98,931,311 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 113,848,898 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
bash 161,950,200 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh

Shell and Host Details

shell label shell id
bash bash-5b5421db
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-23d1a94c
osh-native osh-f538e806
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-806fd4b6
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-18__19-48-10.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-18__19-48-10.times.csv