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Are there benchmarks for Biome anywhere? How much better does it perform than prettier exactly?



Found some here: https://github.com/biomejs/biome/blob/main/benchmark/README....

They claim 25x but the numbers are old so I'm not sure if I believe them now that a bunch of new functionality has been added. Either way, if it's anywhere within that ballpark it's still a huge achievement.


This heavily depends on your workstation. Biome scales very well. With 16 threads on a i7-120P, I got the following figures:

Webpack repository:

  Biome ran
    2.19 ± 0.11 times faster than dprint
    4.18 ± 0.14 times faster than Biome (1 thread)
   32.12 ± 1.18 times faster than Prettier
   32.45 ± 2.56 times faster than Parallel-Prettier
I am not sure why Parallel-Prettier is slower than Prettier for the webpack repository.

Prettier repository:

  Biome ran
    1.89 ± 0.21 times faster than dprint
    3.47 ± 0.34 times faster than Biome (1 thread)
   36.70 ± 3.41 times faster than Parallel-Prettier
   46.66 ± 4.32 times faster than Prettier




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