This repository contains benchmarking suite for Kaitai Struct project.

Run ./build-formats to compile sample format specs (.ksy files) located in formats/ into source code for parsing these file formats in various supported programming languages, to be located in compiled/$LANG.

We strive to use relatively large datasets for benchmarking purposes, thus avoid general issues with micro- / nano-benchmarking, where the unit under test is so small that lots of environment issues start to play a big role.

It is unpractical to store big files in git repository, so instead of providing binary data files, we provide small scripts that generate these big binary files. All these scripts reside in generate/, and there is a helper script that launches generation of all data files - ./generate-all.

After generation, you should get several large binary files in data/, which will be used as input files for benchmarking purposes.

The source code for benchmarks itselves is located under spec/$LANG.

• ./run-cpp_stl

• ./run-python

• ./run-ruby