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 11.8

(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 2,725
bash 118,863 703
osh-native-souffle 118,863 475
osh-native 118,863 441
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 5 0 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 266 238 28 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 5 5 0 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 8 8 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 357 329 28 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 25 7 3 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 40 32 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 44 32 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,754 1,718 36 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 74 4 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 139 123 16 51 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 149 130 20 52 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,115 5,030 84 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 5 5 0 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 6 6 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 7 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 259 230 29 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 4 0 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 248 228 20 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 12 4 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 15 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 20 16 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 820 787 33 28 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 4 4 0 3 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 92 60 32 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 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 67 31 19 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 17 8 8 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 18 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 749 732 16 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 33,379,255 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,916,184 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 39,418,231 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 45,790,721 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 244,833,096 20,489 configure
osh-native 279,177,285 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 807,263,169 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 889,952,739 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,929,702 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,993,942 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 25,252,495 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 29,260,531 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 98,849,393 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 114,624,919 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 10,905,268 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,931,636 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 12,805,886 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 14,035,950 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 98,937,474 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 113,852,065 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-cabedd1b
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-b16bdd2a
osh-native osh-15fafd19
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-6b1c122d
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-22__04-45-07.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-22__04-45-07.times.csv