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 2,639
bash 118,863 694
osh-native-souffle 118,863 421
osh-native 118,863 379
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 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 273 249 24 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 4 4 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 10 10 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 371 359 12 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 9 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 33 32 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 44 32 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 49 37 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,814 1,773 40 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 78 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 161 133 28 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 182 166 16 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,311 5,262 48 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 6 0 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 7 7 0 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 0 7 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 266 253 12 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 0 4 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 6 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 4 4 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 258 233 24 20 1,733 functions
dash 5 2 2 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 17 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 21 17 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 22 11 11 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 849 824 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-souffle 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 101 78 23 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 5 0 5 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 105 87 17 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 11 4 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 18 18 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 19 11 8 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 775 750 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 32,901,200 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,369,081 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,713,907 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,970,371 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,440,946 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,020,107 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,583,276 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,383,084 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,504,941 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,482,283 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,815,942 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,749,339 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,276,693 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,750,548 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 10,803,511 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,810,727 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 12,667,346 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,871,405 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,254,042 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,868,603 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-9f575e64
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-f1ea2145
osh-native osh-84f58c6b
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-b8ad3339
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-11__05-26-54.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-11__05-26-54.times.csv