JSON vs Protobuf.js (v14)

Revision 14 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://rawgit.com/dcodeIO/ByteBuffer.js/master/dist/bytebuffer.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.rawgit.com/dcodeIO/protobuf.js/5.0.1/dist/protobuf.js"></script>

Setup

var testData = {
      question: 'What is the answer to life and everything?',
      answer: 23
    };
    
    var builder = new dcodeIO.ProtoBuf.Builder();
    builder.create({
      "name": "Msg",
      "fields": [{
        "rule": "required",
        "options": {},
        "type": "string",
        "name": "question",
        "id": 1
      }, {
        "rule": "required",
        "options": {},
        "type": "int32",
        "name": "answer",
        "id": 2
      }, ]
    });
    
    var MsgBuilder = builder.build('Msg'),
      protoMsg = new MsgBuilder(testData).encode().toArrayBuffer(),
      jsonMsg = JSON.stringify(testData);

Test runner

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Testing in
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JSON encode
JSON.stringify(testData);
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Protobuf encode
new MsgBuilder(testData).encode().toArrayBuffer()
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JSON decode
JSON.parse(jsonMsg);
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Protobuf decode
MsgBuilder.decode(protoMsg);
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