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 2,686
bash 118,863 694
osh-native-souffle 118,863 483
osh-native 118,863 437
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 7 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 275 242 32 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 4 4 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 363 342 20 21 2,512 abuild
dash 8 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 28 4 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 39 31 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 44 39 4 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,757 1,717 40 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 18 4 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 79 79 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 137 124 12 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 153 133 20 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,140 5,087 52 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 6 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 263 243 20 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 0 2 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 4 0 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 6 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 247 231 16 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 19 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 20 16 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 845 819 25 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 96 79 17 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 0 1 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 4 0 4 8 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 101 81 20 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 16 0 16 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 11 7 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 755 715 40 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 32,911,591 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,382,375 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,726,274 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,981,535 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,438,814 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,026,566 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,566,202 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,378,175 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,518,083 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,496,139 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,827,144 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,762,564 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,288,606 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,762,480 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 10,818,249 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,825,772 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 12,681,554 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,886,369 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,273,237 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,887,521 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-02bfc2f6
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-4fb14cb5
osh-native osh-6b3445bb
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-9af8641a
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-29__21-09-28.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-29__21-09-28.times.csv