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Felix Geisendörfer
June 27, 2012
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As fast as C?
Talk given at the London Node.js User Group.
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June 27, 2012
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As fast as C? Writing high performance stream parsers in
JS. Felix Geisendörfer June 27, 2012 - London Node.js User Group
Thanks Forward!
Felix Geisendörfer
(@)felixge(.de)
core contributor
transloadit.com
~50 npm modules
node-formidable
node-mysql
Parser Geeks?
As fast as C?
Dubious Benchmarks Ahead!
Selecting 100k blog post rows
None
None
0 15000 30000 45000 60000 node-mysql-0.9.6 node-mysql-libmysqlclient-1.3.3 node-mysql-2.0.0-alpha3 53966 36429
20968 Rows per Second node-mysql-0.9.6 node-mysql-libmysqlclient-1.3.3 node-mysql-2.0.0-alpha3 https://github.com/felixge/mysql-client-benchmarks
0 17500 35000 52500 70000 node-mysql-0.9.6 node-mysql-libmysqlclient-1.3.3 node-mysql-2.0.0-alpha3 php-mysqlnd-5.13 68097
53966 36429 20968 Rows per Second node-mysql-0.9.6 node-mysql-libmysqlclient-1.3.3 node-mysql-2.0.0-alpha3 php-mysqlnd-5.13 https://github.com/felixge/mysql-client-benchmarks
Pure node.js parsers can compete with C Addons
Lessons Learned
Practice
Benchmark First
Buffering can be good!
Code!
it
Sponsors
They’re hiring! @dan_jenkins
Also hiring!
Questions? ” http://felixge.de/
[email protected]
@felixge
Algorithms
------------------------------4a62195680a6 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upload1"; filename="file1.txt" Content-Type: text/plain file 1 data
... ------------------------------4a62195680a6 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upload2"; filename="file2.txt" Content-Type: text/plain file 2 data ... ------------------------------4a62195680a6-- Example: Multipart (File Uploads)
Lots and lots of file data ... ------------------------------4a62195680a6 Naive Boundary
Search: One byte at a time