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 2,701
bash 118,863 688
osh-native-souffle 118,863 422
osh-native 118,863 410
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 8 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 9 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 273 261 12 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 6 6 0 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 9 9 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 10 10 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 385 348 36 21 2,512 abuild
dash 8 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 33 33 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native 49 41 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 51 51 0 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,807 1,754 52 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 79 75 4 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 149 121 28 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 161 141 20 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,342 5,241 101 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 6 0 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 7 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 7 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 259 235 24 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 4 0 3 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 7 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 7 0 7 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 257 233 24 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 14 3 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 21 14 7 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 23 23 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 863 835 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-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 98 78 19 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 5 5 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 103 83 20 19 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 19 19 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 21 14 7 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 776 739 36 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 32,912,521 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,382,824 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,727,052 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,982,187 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,441,129 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,026,938 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,570,696 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,378,889 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,518,473 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,496,575 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,827,930 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,762,914 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,289,859 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,762,638 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 10,818,418 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,826,395 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 12,682,273 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,886,932 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,273,332 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,887,614 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-f785eebc
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-4866927e
osh-native osh-e26e86c4
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-f64e80eb
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-10-30__18-26-10.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-10-30__18-26-10.times.csv