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 2,669
bash 118,863 699
osh-native-souffle 118,863 453
osh-native 118,863 394
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 277 240 36 22 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 374 366 8 23 2,512 abuild
dash 9 4 4 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 4 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 41 33 8 20 20,489 configure
osh-native 45 37 8 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,791 1,759 32 43 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 78 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 150 126 24 50 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 178 166 12 46 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,471 5,406 64 87 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 273 240 32 22 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 2 2 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 7 7 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 261 245 16 21 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 17 0 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 19 19 0 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 21 17 4 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 844 816 28 29 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 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 4 4 0 7 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-cpython 107 78 29 20 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 4 0 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 110 84 25 20 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 11 4 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native-souffle 17 17 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 7 11 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 765 745 20 28 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 32,900,265 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,369,153 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
osh-native-souffle 38,714,031 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 44,970,453 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native-souffle 241,441,804 20,489 configure
osh-native 255,020,543 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 782,602,332 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 917,380,344 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native-souffle 26,505,032 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 30,482,333 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
osh-native-souffle 24,816,037 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 28,749,426 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,276,889 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 112,750,574 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 10,803,549 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,810,765 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 12,667,281 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 13,871,299 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native-souffle 97,254,510 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 111,868,047 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-6f2426d8
dash dash-0ebcf347
osh-cpython osh-e62cc07f
osh-native osh-c4f561a0
osh-native-souffle osh-native-souffle-cceb9c1f
host label host id
no-host no-host-556df3ee

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-11-20__00-19-40.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-11-20__00-19-40.times.csv