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 11.5

(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 2,675
bash 118,863 698
osh-native-souffle 118,863 435
osh-native 118,863 366
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 0 2 1 2,698 Build.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native-souffle 7 7 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 274 265 8 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 6 6 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 363 342 21 21 2,512 abuild
dash 8 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 42 42 0 20 20,489 configure
osh-native 51 39 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,758 1,709 48 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 18 4 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 74 4 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 156 132 24 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 192 184 8 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,340 5,267 72 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 6 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 270 257 12 20 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 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 7 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 250 222 28 20 1,733 functions
dash 5 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 17 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 20 12 8 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 23 16 8 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 831 806 24 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 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 97 75 22 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 0 4 8 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 102 78 24 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 11 4 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 18 13 4 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 19 11 8 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 769 744 24 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 32,911,197 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,381,759 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,725,879 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,980,919 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,438,276 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,025,834 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,565,518 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,377,299 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,517,718 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,495,552 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,826,779 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,761,977 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,287,913 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,761,365 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 10,817,823 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,825,057 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 12,681,218 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,885,811 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,272,617 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,886,722 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-7f275498
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-e8a530d9
osh-native osh-1a1b0774
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-bfa2a0a5
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-26__16-12-46.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-26__16-12-46.times.csv