Help me benchmarking Gulp VS Grunt! A summary of the results will be published on my blog (http://www.insertafter.com/blog.html).

bench.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Install the project
git clone [email protected]:ChtiJS/chtijs.francejs.org chtijs
 
cd chtijs
 
# Testing the Grunt build
git checkout master
npm install --quiet
time for a in {1..10}; do grunt dist; done
 
# Copy paste the result as in a comment to this gist formatted as in the first comment
 
# Testing the Gulp build
git checkout gulp
npm install --quiet
 
# in the buffer mode
time for a in {1..10}; do gulp build --prod; done
 
# in the stream mode
time for a in {1..10}; do gulp build --prod --stream; done
 
# Copy paste the result as in a comment to this gist formatted as in the first comment
 
### Note ###
# The full potential of stream mode isn't revealed by those tests since there
# is several plugins that do not support streaming yet

Core i5 - SSD drive

Grunt

real 0m14.043s
user 0m10.913s
sys 0m0.676s

Gulp buffer mode

real 0m11.518s
user 0m10.293s
sys 0m0.680s

Gulp stream mode

real 0m11.466s
user 0m10.117s
sys 0m0.672s

Core i5 - SSD

Grunt

real 0m17.799s
user 0m12.783s
sys 0m1.197s

Gulp buffer

real 0m13.378s
user 0m11.752s
sys 0m1.153s

Gulp stream

real 0m13.211s
user 0m11.558s
sys 0m1.142s

PS: add #!/bin/bash at the head of you .sh file so you can drop the extension ^^ & keep highlight in editors :)

Core i7 - SATA

Grunt

real 0m20.736s
user 0m14.162s
sys 0m1.257s

Gulp buffer

real 0m14.629s
user 0m13.619s
sys 0m1.190s

Gulp stream

real 0m14.112s
user 0m13.102s
sys 0m1.180s

Core i7 2,6 GHz - SATA

Grunt

real 0m23.623s
user 0m14.071s
sys 0m1.410s

Gulp buffer

real 0m21.184s
user 0m13.375s
sys 0m1.510s

Gulp stream

real 0m14.798s
user 0m13.661s
sys 0m1.317s

core i7 @2.7GHz - SSD drive

grunt

real 0m15.083s
user 0m12.210s
sys 0m1.260s

gulps buffer mode

real 0m12.958s
user 0m11.848s
sys 0m1.274s

gulp stream mode

real 0m12.397s
user 0m11.298s
sys 0m1.262s

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz - SATA drive

Grunt

real 0m23.114s
user 0m19.746s
sys 0m1.449s

gulp (buffer mode)

real 0m29.038s
user 0m25.953s
sys 0m1.503s

gulp (stream mode)

real 0m16.144s
user 0m15.147s
sys 0m1.108s

PS : For the record, I got some errors while running the benchmark

• gulp.env has been deprecated for gulp in general (I'm using 3.5.2, you actually just need to replace gulp.env with gulp-util.env)
• streams not supported for Browserify for gulp in stream mode

Ok, new benchmarks are irrelevant since the 2 branches diverged now. Thanks for the intent :).

Oops, sorry it took me that long...