Angular VS Knockout (v38)

Revision 38 of this benchmark created on

Description

I saw an unfair comparison between Angular, Knockout, ExtJS, and Backbone, and it made me mad.

This version uses angular 1.2, knockout 2.1.0 and ember-1.0.0-pre.2

Preparation HTML

<!-- Jquery -->
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>

<!-- Angular -->
<div ng-app>
  Angular:
  <span ng-controller="Ctrl" id="angList"><span ng-repeat="item in data">{{item}}</span></span>
</div>

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.2/angular.min.js"></script>

<script>
  var Ctrl = function($scope){
    $scope.data = [];
  }
  
  angular.element(document).ready(function() {
    var ang_scope = $('#angList').scope();
    
    window.ANGclear = function(){
      ang_scope.data.splice(0, ang_scope.data.length);
      ang_scope.$digest();
    };
    window.ANGpush = function(data){
      ang_scope.data = data;
      ang_scope.$digest();
    };
  });
</script> 



<!-- Knockout -->
<div id="koapp">
  Knockout:
  <span data-bind="foreach: data"><span data-bind="text: $data"></span></span>
</div>

<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/2.1.0/knockout-min.js"></script>

<script>
  var KOData = ko.observableArray();
  var KOviewmodel = {data: KOData};
  
  ko.applyBindings(KOviewmodel, document.getElementById('koapp'));
  var KOclear = function (){
    KOData.splice(0, KOData().length);
  };
  var KOpush = function (data){
    KOData(data);
  };
</script>

Setup

var testData = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
       testData.push("item");

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
Angular 10
ANGclear();
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
  ANGpush(testData);
ready
Knockout 10
KOclear();
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++)
  KOpush(testData);
ready

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