dsteem vs. steem-js — Round 1

almost-digital (61) in steemdev • 7 years ago (edited)

@good-karma suggested that I should setup a performance test of dsteem and compare it to the official steem-js library and I was happy to oblige. The results really surprised me however, I expected dsteem to maybe be a little bit faster but the results show that dsteem is ~90 times faster than steem-js!

I setup the test to cover the most common and compute intensive operation I could think of (deserializing a private key and using that to sign a transaction). You can check how it's setup and run it for yourself here: https://jsperf.com/dsteem-vs-steem-js/1

Update: In node.js dsteem pulls ahead with another order of magnitude, more than 1000 times faster! Probably because many of the crypto functions I'm using have native bindings when running in node.

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good-karma (76) · 7 years ago (edited)

Surprisingly big difference than I expected! :) looking forward to round 2...

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

You and me both :)

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ekitcho (60) · 7 years ago

great contribution!
i wish we could update the steem js library asap with your solution or simply update with your contribution so the whole ecosystem can benefit this great improvement

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justinw (60) · 7 years ago

Wow, that's awesome. I'm curious about read operations - have you benchmarked any of those? get_state etc?

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

Thanks! No, I haven't. I think the differences should be negligible unless steem-js is doing something really weird :)

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justinw (60) · 7 years ago

That was my thought as well - but this is still a great boost in performance for transactions that require signing. Are you using anything non-standard? Is this most likely a difference in use of different libraries?

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

I haven't profiled it but my guess is that a large part of the performance improvement is coming from the node-secp256k1 package. The browserify crypto implementations are really good as well.