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

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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 2,614
bash 118,863 698
osh-native-souffle 118,863 453
osh-native 118,863 405
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 7 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 266 242 24 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 6 3 3 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 9 9 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 6 3 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 368 348 20 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 3 6 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 28 4 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 41 41 0 20 20,489 configure
osh-native 45 41 4 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,823 1,762 60 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 77 77 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 149 114 35 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 171 143 28 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,270 5,156 112 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 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 260 240 20 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 5 0 5 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 6 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 252 227 25 20 1,733 functions
dash 5 5 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 17 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 11 7 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 21 21 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 834 793 41 28 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 1 0 1 1 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 4 0 4 3 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 98 70 27 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 8 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 104 84 20 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 18 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 763 746 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 32,911,479 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,382,353 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,726,161 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,981,513 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,438,702 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,026,544 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,566,090 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,378,183 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,517,971 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,496,117 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,827,032 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,762,542 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,288,308 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,762,413 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 10,818,075 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,825,735 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 12,681,442 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,886,347 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,272,973 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,887,515 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-87141c8a
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-9c1bd4de
osh-native osh-18e9c991
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-3a85ce58
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-28__16-13-51.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-28__16-13-51.times.csv