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

(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 2,684
bash 118,863 701
osh-native 118,863 430
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 8 4 4 8 2,698 Build.sh
osh-cpython 269 253 16 20 2,698 Build.sh
dash 2 2 0 1 2,512 abuild
bash 5 5 0 3 2,512 abuild
osh-native 9 4 4 8 2,512 abuild
osh-cpython 354 317 37 21 2,512 abuild
dash 9 3 6 2 20,489 configure
bash 32 32 0 3 20,489 configure
osh-native 45 24 20 21 20,489 configure
osh-cpython 1,799 1,770 28 42 20,489 configure
dash 21 21 0 2 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 78 77 0 3 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 154 134 20 51 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-cpython 5,286 5,198 88 86 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 6 3 3 3 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-native 7 3 3 8 2,029 configure-helper.sh
osh-cpython 267 254 13 20 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 1 1 0 1 1,733 functions
bash 4 4 0 3 1,733 functions
osh-native 6 6 0 8 1,733 functions
osh-cpython 257 228 28 20 1,733 functions
dash 4 4 0 2 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 17 7 10 4 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 21 10 10 15 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-cpython 827 798 28 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 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 4 0 4 7 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 5 5 0 3 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-cpython 103 75 27 18 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 15 15 0 3 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-native 18 18 0 12 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh
osh-cpython 766 733 32 26 5,160 test-cmd-util.sh

Instruction Counts

shell label irefs num lines filename
dash 6,416,010 2,698 Build.sh
bash 35,958,882 2,698 Build.sh
osh-native 37,902,656 2,698 Build.sh
dash 7,042,147 2,512 abuild
bash 43,761,475 2,512 abuild
osh-native 45,788,622 2,512 abuild
dash 53,261,640 20,489 configure
osh-native 279,156,177 20,489 configure
bash 349,702,388 20,489 configure
dash 151,770,612 69,779 configure-coreutils
bash 886,197,417 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 889,620,209 69,779 configure-coreutils
osh-native 30,989,267 2,029 configure-helper.sh
bash 47,119,375 2,029 configure-helper.sh
dash 4,652,224 1,733 functions
bash 28,169,399 1,733 functions
osh-native 29,255,604 1,733 functions
dash 23,597,230 9,661 ltmain.sh
osh-native 114,622,599 9,661 ltmain.sh
bash 172,930,991 9,661 ltmain.sh
dash 3,166,564 1,679 t4014-format-patch.sh
osh-native 11,931,845 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 14,038,026 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
bash 41,138,083 3,123 t9300-fast-import.sh
osh-native 113,860,797 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-b1e4b78e
dash dash-308ec8e6
osh-cpython osh-cfb17e5d
osh-native osh-7325be66
host label host id
no-host no-host-1c33b689

Raw Data

filename
no-host.2024-07-24__20-34-19.cachegrind.tsv
no-host.2024-07-24__20-34-19.times.csv