Benchmarking the Streams Logger

Introduction

This package provides a rough benchmark comparison between Streams, Pino, and Winston. The comparison may not take into account relevant optimizations offered by each package - this is a work in progress. Please see the implementations for details.

Materials

• Streams
• Pino
• Winston

Methods

Hello, World!

Each logger is configured to log a message to the console and a file that roughly resembles 2024-07-10T02:31:33.797Z INFO: Hello, World!. Each logger is ran once on each iteration.

Procedure

1. Start a child process.
2. Start the timer.
3. Configure the logger.
4. Run the specified test hello_world.js.
5. Log Hello, World! to the console and to a file 10000 times.
6. Calculate the mean time and memory usage of each iteration.

Run the Test

npm start iteration=1e1 test=hello_world

Results

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