j2labs / cerealization

Some tools for testing the serialization speeds of different languages

Cerealization

Hey folks, this is just your every day, normal, do-it-yourself kinda home serailization speed testing tool kit. Just clone the repo, install any necessary requirements and run just 1 (that's right, just 1!) command to git-r-done.

So what we got here is a python script that runs multiple types of serialization. It knows how to do json in like five diffr'nt which ways. And it knows how to do some pickled output too. (Them suckers taste DELICIOUS). But it also knows how to do tnetstring's too.

If you don't know about tnetstrings just send your internet location to tnetstring.org and give it a look or two.

Act Now!

Now, I'm gonna tell you just how we do it in a moment... But first! I want to let you know about a limited time offer.

I'm just so excited about this!

Right now, for a limited time, I'm gonna give you not just one, but TWO (!) serialization files. The first one is the speed testing Python code, just like we discussed, but the second code file adds some Node.js to the experience!

You too (!) can see that Python's ultrajson and Ryan Kelly and Zed Shaw's tnetstring serialization is faster than Node.js's JSON.stringify or JSON.parse.

GIT R DONE!

Real Results!

Now, these results are for multiple Python techniques of serialization, but keep an eye out for ujson and tnetstring.

$ python cereal.py 
Dumping:
  json: 5.98301100731
  simplejson: 6.78803396225
  cjson: 2.19402098656
  ujson: 0.719541072845
  cPickle: 6.73631691933
  tnetstrings: 20.1821420193
  tnetstring: 0.82697892189
Loading:
  json: 8.23215007782
  simplejson: 3.65900611877
  cjson: 1.69663691521
  ujson: 1.13573312759
  cPickle: 3.0421769619
  tnetstrings: 29.0939230919
  tnetstring: 0.711443185806

Here is how Node.js did. I threw in eval() but I think it'd be a mighty unwise kinda choice to actually use it.

$ node cereal.js 
Dumping:
  JSON: 2.023
Loading:
  JSON: 1.885
  eval(): 24.516

Gitting R Done At Home

You just gotta git this here repo on your computer or your laptop or what have you and then... Go on now.

$ cd ~/Desktop/
$ git clone https://github.com/j2labs/cerealization.git
$ cd cerealization

OK. Now for folks still following along with me at home, just install them Python requirements like this here. I recommend using a virtualenv if you got 'em.

$ pip install -I -r ./py.reqs

And maybe you still gotta install Node.js. Well, they can describe how that's done better than myself: Installing Node.js

Alright! Let's do this!

$ python cereal.py
...

$ node cereal.js
...