A basic HTTP benchmarks against @benzene/http and popular GraphQL Server libraries.

Results are taken after a 3s warm-up. Then the following command is used.

wrk -t12 -c400 -d8s -s src/post.lua http://localhost:4000/graphql

Remember, this benchmark is for reference only and by no means says that one is better than the others. The slowest part of the application is still the application code itself, not the library. Some libraries may be slower only because they have more features.

To add a benchmark, create a file in library:

• if the file name ends with .deno.js, it will be run with deno
• if the file name ends with .bun.js, it will be run with bun
• otherwise, it will be run with node

Clone the repository, go to benchmarks folder, and install the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/hoangvvo/benzene.git
cd benzene/benchmarks
npm i

Install wrk

Run the benchmarks (for Windows, use git bash):

Set permissions:

chmod u+x ./run
chmod u+x ./runall

Run benchmarks:

./run <library>

The result would be written to results/<library>.json.

The following can be used as <library>:

• benzene-jit-http (@benzene/http with JIT runtime)
• benzene-http (@benzene/http)
• benzene-http.deno (@benzene/http on Deno)
• apollo-server
• mercurius (with JIT)
• graphql-yoga
• graphql-helix
• express-graphql

To run all benchmarks at once:

./runall

Create a PR to add one.

To create a markdown table from the result:

./runall

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