uWebSockets Techempower Benchmark

README.md

install

npm install

run node.js server

node app

run uws server

node app --uws

run standard plaintext benchmark

wrk -c 100 -t 2 http://127.0.0.1:8080/plaintext

run insane http pipeline plaintext benchmark

wrk -c 100 -t 2 -s ./plaintext.lua http://127.0.0.1:8001/plaintext

run standard json benchmark

wrk -c 100 -t 2 http://127.0.0.1:8080/json

run insane http pipeline json benchmark

wrk -c 100 -t 2 -s ./json.lua http://127.0.0.1:8001/json

results

environment

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6560U CPU @ 2.20GHz
• 4.4.0-47-generic, x86-64, Ubuntu 14.04
• node.js v6.9.1

results in krps

		plaintext	json
standard	uws	196	125
standard	node.js	24	22
pipeline	uws	870	365
pipeline	node.js	49	43

app.js

const http = process.argv[2]==="--uws"?require("uws").http:require("http")
const hello = 'Hello world!'
const helloBuffer = Buffer.from(hello)
const notFound = "Not Found"
const plainText = "/plaintext"
const json = "/json"

const contentType = "Content-Type"
const contentTypes = {
  text: "text/plain; charset=UTF-8",
  json: "application/json"
}

function onRequest(req, res) {
  if(req.url === plainText) {
    res.setHeader(contentType, contentTypes.text);
    res.end(helloBuffer)
  }
  else if(req.url === json) {
    res.setHeader(contentType, contentTypes.json);
    res.end(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ message: hello })))
  }
  else {
    res.statusCode = 404
    res.end(notFound)
  }
}

http.createServer(onRequest).listen(8080)

json.lua

init = function(args)
   depth = 24
   local r = {}
   for i=1,depth do
      r[i] = wrk.format(nil, "/json")
   end
   req = table.concat(r)
end

request = function()
   return req
end

package.json

{
  "name": "uws-test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "uws": "0.13.0"
  }
}

plaintext.lua

init = function(args)
   depth = 24
   local r = {}
   for i=1,depth do
      r[i] = wrk.format(nil, "/plaintext")
   end
   req = table.concat(r)
end

request = function()
   return req
end