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Node.js Benchmarking Working Group

Benchmarking Work Group

Mandate

The Benchmark working group's purpose is to gain consensus for an agreed set of benchmarks that can be used to:

1. Track and evangelize performance gains made between Node releases
2. Avoid performance regressions between releases

Its responsibilities are:

1. Identify 1 or more benchmarks that reflect customer usage. Likely need more than one to cover typical Node use cases including low-latency and high concurrency
2. Work to get community consensus on the list chosen
3. Add regular execution of chosen benchmarks to Node builds
4. Track/publicize performance between builds/releases

The path forward is to:

• Define the important use cases
• Define the key runtime attributes
• Find/create benchmarks that provide good coverage for the use cases and attributes (current table)

See here for information about the infrastructure in place so far: https://github.com/nodejs/benchmarking/blob/master/benchmarks/README.md

Current Project Team Members

• Michael Dawson (@mhdawson) Facilitaor
• Trevor Norris (@trevnorris)
• Ali Sheikh (@ofrobots)
• Yosuke Furukawa (@yosuke-furukawa)
• Yunong Xiao (@yunong)
• Mark Leitch (@m-leitch)
• Surya V Duggirala (@suryadu)
• Uttam Pawar (@uttampawar)
• Michael Paulson (@michaelbpaulson)
• Gareth Ellis (@gareth-ellis)
• Wayne Andrews (@CurryKitten)
• Kyle Farnung (@kfarnung)
• Kunal Pathak (@kunalspathak)
• Benedikt Meurer (@bmeurer)
• Sathvik Laxminarayan (@sathvikl)