Recurram Benchmark

TypeScript benchmark harness for recurram (recurram-js local package).

Setup

pnpm install

recurram is consumed from ../recurram-js via a local file dependency. If the native/WASM artifacts are stale, rebuild recurram-js first:

pnpm --dir ../recurram-js build

Run benchmark

pnpm bench
pnpm bench:msgpack
pnpm bench:max

Optional flags:

• --backend napi|wasm (default: napi)
• --time-ms <number> (default: 1000)
• --warmup-ms <number> (default: 250)
• --mode full|max (default: full)
• --recurram-vs-msgpack-only (hide JSON rows and JSON benchmark tasks)

Examples:

pnpm bench -- --backend napi
pnpm bench -- --recurram-vs-msgpack-only
pnpm bench -- --mode max --backend napi
pnpm bench -- --backend wasm --time-ms 2000 --warmup-ms 500

What is measured

• Recurram encode/decode for a single record
• Recurram encode/decode for a 256-record batch
• MessagePack encode/decode baselines for single and batched payloads
• Recurram session patch encode (encodePatch)
• Raw transport-json fast path (encodeTransportJson, encodeBatchTransportJson, decodeToTransportJson)
• JSON stringify/parse baseline for a comparable payload
• Encoded payload size comparison (recurram vs MessagePack vs JSON)
• Pretty CLI tables for size and throughput output (cli-table3)

Max speed tips

• Use --backend napi on Node.js
• Prefer Node.js 24+ (project baseline)
• Increase run windows for stability (--time-ms 3000 --warmup-ms 1000)
• For hot paths, pre-serialize once with transport-json APIs and use raw encode methods