A benchmark tool for DOM implememtations in Node.js

TL;DR

• dom.js is about 1.75x faster than jsdom
• domino is ~2.2x faster than dom.js and ~3.9x faster than jsdom

Running the tests

$node benchmark
Run DOM benchmarks.

Options:
  --impl, -i  which DOM implementation to use [jsdom|domino|domjs]
  --num, -n   how often to run each test
  --grep, -g  only run tests matching this pattern
  --debug     output the result of the first test run
  --help, -?  display this help message

jsdom

$node benchmark -i jsdom
Node v0.5.10: Running each test 1500 time(s) backed by jsdom.
append: 875ms
empty: 559ms
parse: 2710ms
serialize: 62ms
weld: 10239ms
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total: 14452ms

dom.js

$node --harmony_proxies --harmony_weakmaps benchmark -i domjs
Node v0.5.10: Running each test 1500 time(s) backed by domjs.
append: 569ms
empty: 463ms
parse: 2161ms
serialize: 71ms
weld: 4947ms
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total: 8223ms

domino

$node benchmark -i domino
Node v0.5.10: Running each test 1500 time(s) backed by domino.
append: 160ms
empty: 108ms
parse: 1071ms
serialize: 19ms
weld: 2302ms
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total: 3669ms