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 2,689
bash 118,863 695
osh-native-souffle 118,863 470
osh-native 118,863 428
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 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 270 249 20 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 4 4 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 3 6 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 362 326 36 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 6 3 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 3 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 40 32 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 45 40 4 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,804 1,768 36 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 14 7 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 80 79 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 143 119 24 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 156 144 12 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,201 5,124 76 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 6 0 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 6 0 6 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 7 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 262 233 28 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 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 251 235 16 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 16 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 11 7 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 21 16 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 831 803 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 95 62 33 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 0 1 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 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 100 81 19 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 17 12 4 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 11 7 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 759 726 32 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 32,898,653 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,366,422 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,711,364 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,967,711 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,436,783 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,014,369 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,576,889 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,365,165 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,503,148 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,480,426 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,814,149 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,747,466 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,273,416 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,747,097 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 10,802,484 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,809,694 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 12,666,303 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,870,334 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,249,149 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,863,995 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-d7b0df59
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-6a5863c2
osh-native osh-6bdb49bc
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-00fc03d8
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-03__00-57-33.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-03__00-57-33.times.csv