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 2,674
bash 118,863 707
osh-native-souffle 118,863 475
osh-native 118,863 442
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 273 252 20 21 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 6 3 3 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 8 4 4 8 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 9 0 8 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 365 356 8 22 2,512 abuild
dash 9 8 0 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 28 4 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 40 36 4 20 20,489 configure
osh-native 43 31 12 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,776 1,748 28 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 77 77 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 140 120 20 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 151 126 24 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,209 5,120 88 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 3 3 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native-souffle 6 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 261 236 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 6 3 3 8 1,733 functions
osh-native 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 253 225 27 20 1,733 functions
dash 5 5 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 12 4 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 7 11 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 20 12 8 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 840 788 52 28 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
bash 3 0 3 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 94 73 20 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 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 103 90 12 19 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 11 4 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 16 16 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 14 4 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 753 729 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 32,905,829 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,373,715 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 44,975,056 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,448,302 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,025,961 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 917,386,343 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,509,225 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,486,606 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,819,090 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,753,665 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,290,581 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,756,336 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 10,807,498 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,815,107 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 13,875,288 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,259,633 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,874,072 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-b766afda
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-8d049c35
osh-native osh-c2f81c41
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-956e9ad6
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-18__04-40-53.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-18__04-40-53.times.csv