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 2,674
bash 118,863 703
osh-native-souffle 118,863 492
osh-native 118,863 445
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 3 3 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 268 232 36 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 0 8 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 358 334 24 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 3 6 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 28 4 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 40 32 8 20 20,489 configure
osh-native 43 31 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,741 1,709 32 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 78 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 132 116 16 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 150 130 20 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,229 5,176 52 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 6 6 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 255 239 16 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 246 237 9 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 2 2 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 10 7 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 18 18 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 20 16 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 846 821 24 28 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 4 0 4 3 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 93 73 20 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 100 80 20 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 16 16 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 18 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 771 747 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 32,898,508 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,366,419 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,711,219 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,967,708 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,436,638 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,014,396 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,576,744 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,365,192 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,503,003 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,480,423 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,814,004 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,747,463 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,273,463 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,746,868 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 10,802,403 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,809,606 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 12,666,158 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,870,331 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,249,100 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,863,907 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-0ed3ab6f
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-df0dd697
osh-native osh-7e16d51b
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-39b6bef7
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-02__06-13-54.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-02__06-13-54.times.csv