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 2,690
bash 118,863 705
osh-native-souffle 118,863 461
osh-native 118,863 417
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 0 8 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 8 8 0 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 274 266 8 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 8 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 9 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 368 352 16 22 2,512 abuild
dash 9 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 41 37 4 21 20,489 configure
osh-native 46 30 15 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,776 1,723 52 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 1 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 77 73 4 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 143 131 12 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 159 127 32 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,155 5,070 85 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 7 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 258 233 24 21 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 0 4 3 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 7 7 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 7 7 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 251 223 28 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 16 12 4 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 12 8 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 22 18 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 837 808 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 4 0 4 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 95 68 28 18 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 4 0 4 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 0 5 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 104 76 28 19 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 11 4 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 17 7 10 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 19 11 8 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 771 763 8 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 32,905,829 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,373,683 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,717,959 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,975,024 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,448,302 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,025,929 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,609,229 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,386,341 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,509,225 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,486,574 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,820,241 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,753,633 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,290,581 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,756,304 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 10,807,528 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,815,075 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 12,671,190 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,875,256 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,259,634 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,874,041 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-0a0d95b0
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-d40d5f84
osh-native osh-a22356ae
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-3af8a7fb
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-18__02-33-19.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-18__02-33-19.times.csv