Show HN: Fdir – Faster Node.js glob alternative

Re:Show HN: Fdir – Faster Node.js glob alternative by thecodrr on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:17PM (#22723284)

Hey, thanks for taking the interest and the time to audit and benchmark.

You can get a rough idea of VM startup time by running a simple hello world program.

fdir is supposed to compete against nodejs alternatives so I am not surprised it comes last. Maybe the next goal should be to optimize it against other cross language platforms.

V8 does a lot of optimizations but there is still overhead. A native solution in bash has little to no overhead so no wonder it's the fastest.

Anyway, thanks again. This benchmark was insightful (also humbling).

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Re:Show HN: Fdir – Faster Node.js glob alternative by BiteCode_dev on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:43PM (#22723470)

Gonna add test with hello world to see vm startup time.

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Re:Show HN: Fdir – Faster Node.js glob alternative by thecodrr on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:42PM (#22724466)

If we subtract the vm time from total time that should (very roughly) be the time taken for fdir to crawl the directory.

So basically:

83ms - 55ms = 28ms

Not bad, not bad. :D the scale remains the same tho so not that beneficial.

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