Looking for good example native modules for performance testing

[ianwjhalliday]

Hi folks,

@stefanmb, @mhdawson, and I have been experimenting with a prototype VM agnostic and ABI stable API for interfacing with JavaScript in native modules and we would like to test on real world native modules to reveal any performance bottlenecks or issues.

We suspect modules that expose a "chatty" API (frequent calls back and forth between JavaScript code and the module's native code) may reveal performance issues.

Does anyone know of good example modules that we can test with?

Modules that also have established benchmarks would be great so that we can avoid spending time on creating new benchmarks.

@aruneshchandra suggested leveldown as a good example, we are looking at it now to get started.

[JCMais]

We suspect modules that expose a "chatty" API (frequent calls back and forth between JavaScript code and the module's native code) may reveal performance issues.

The addon I was working on would fit that, however, it's being throw together while I'm learning C++, so it's probably not a good example to use. It doesn't have any benchmark done. https://github.com/JCMais/node-libcurl

[kkoopa]

hiredis
nanomsg
zeromq

sqlite3

lame

[mhdawson]

Going to start looking at sqlite3

[aruneshchandra]

Additionally @rvagg suggested bignum and serialport. He may have some more to suggest, but this seems like a good list at the moment.

[mhdawson]

While more suggestions are always welcome. I'm going to close this as I think any suggestions we are going to get we have by now.