can benchmarks be runnable without node?

[Yaffle]

can benchmarks be runnable without node?

[indutny]

Hm... it does work pretty well for me, what node.js version are you using?

I think it could be, with a help of browserify! Do you want to help me with this? ;)

[Yaffle]

Add next 4 lines to the index.js:

// "browserify" will set bignum to "stub"
if (typeof bignum === "object") {
  bignum = bbignum;
}

npm install browserify
browserify index.js --ignore bignum -o index.min.js
create index.html:

var console = {
  log: function (t) {
    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", "<br />" + t);
  }
};

setTimeout(function () {
  var script = document.createElement("script");
  script.src = "i.js";
  document.querySelector("script").parentNode.appendChild(script);
}, 10);

But
benchmark.js works very sadly for me - it takes very long time to execute, do you know how to configure it?

[indutny]

I guess benchmark.options.maxTime or something like that. It is worth noting, though, that the quality of values really depend on the time of execution.

Mind opening a PR for browserify fixes? (Or have you already done it...)

[Yaffle]

@indutny , i tried with benchmark.options.maxTime with no good result.

[indutny]

Yeah, looks like it is not enough. Try adding minSamples = 2 too.

[Yaffle]

@indutny , i tried with minSamples = 16, minSamples = 128; seems, a little better, but too long anyway.

[indutny]

Yeah, I'd suggest taking a look at benchmark source then.

[Yaffle]

@indutny , Ok, i checked with your last changes, seems it works, "create"+"create-hex" takes ~40 seconds...
But seems, "benchmark.js" works not good after "browserify", because:

1. it cannot get correct "window" object;
2. async tests are not supported, so you need to wait before any result will be displayed.

[Yaffle]

@indutny
I have to modify "index.js" a little to support "async":
https://github.com/Yaffle/bn.js/commit/e2649d23aff58b33a44476ad0756854dfa66a54b

Please look at result here:
http://yaffle.github.io/bn.js/benchmarks/