Improve performance about chalk

[sindresorhus]

Yes, you're probably better off using https://github.com/sindresorhus/ansi-styles for high-performance situations. It will probably be faster than colors too.

Though I'll keep this open to remind me about doing a perf review of Chalk. There might be some optimizations to be made.

[CrabDude]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll take a look.

[ccheever]

@CrabDude I made an alternate implementation that might be faster. It should be a drop-in replacement for chalk and work exactly the same way.

https://github.com/aceface/crayon

Can you try running it on your codebase and see if things run faster? If you don't a ton of chaining, it should be significantly faster (turning 100000 simple strings red was 31ms vs 7s with chalk for me)

@sindresorhus take a look at the code. In general, I think the defineProps for every style each time there is a call is what is slow, but would have to measure more to be sure.

[CrabDude]

Definitely. I'll try it out this weekend and report back.

On Friday, May 23, 2014, Charlie Cheever [email protected] wrote:

@CrabDude https://github.com/CrabDude I made an alternate
implementation that might be faster. It should be a drop-in replacement for
chalk and work exactly the same way.

https://github.com/aceface/crayon

Can you try running it on your codebase and see if things run faster? If
you don't a ton of chaining, it should be significantly faster (turning
100000 simple strings red was 31ms vs 7s with chalk for me)

@sindresorhus https://github.com/sindresorhus take a look at the code.
In general, I think the defineProps for every style each time there is a
call is what is slow, but would have to measure more to be sure.

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