This is a benchmark suite designed to measure the JavaScript related workloads commonly used by Web Developers nowadays, for example the core workloads in popular tools like Babel or TypeScript. It's the explicit goal to measure only the JavaScript performance aspect, which is affected by the JavaScript engine, and not measure I/O or other unrelated aspects.
See the in-depth analysis for a detailed description of the tests included in this benchmark suite.
The latest browser version of the benchmark is available at https://v8.github.io/web-tooling-benchmark/.
This was tested with Node 6, Node 7 and Node 8.
To build the benchmark suite, run
$ npm install
assuming that you have a working Node.js installation. Once
the command is done, it produces a bundled version that is suitable to run in
JS shells (i.e. d8, jsc or jsshell) in dist/cli.js and another bundle
in dist/browser.js that is used by the browser version in dist/index.html.
You can either run the benchmark suite directly via Node, i.e. like this:
$ node dist/cli.js
Running Web Tooling Benchmark 0.3.1...
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acorn: 9.19 runs/sec
babel: 6.74 runs/sec
babylon: 8.72 runs/sec
buble: 7.67 runs/sec
chai: 13.28 runs/sec
coffeescript: 6.80 runs/sec
espree: 5.45 runs/sec
esprima: 7.67 runs/sec
jshint: 8.41 runs/sec
lebab: 8.88 runs/sec
prepack: 8.81 runs/sec
prettier: 11.21 runs/sec
source-map: 17.22 runs/sec
typescript: 10.70 runs/sec
uglify-es: 20.16 runs/sec
uglify-js: 8.22 runs/sec
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Geometric mean: 9.37 runs/sec
Or you open a web browser and point it to dist/index.html, or you can use one
of the engine JS shells (d8, jsc, ch or jsshell) to run the special bundle
in dist/cli.js.