The benchmarks are now available on the pnpm website.
The code that generates the benchmarks was moved here .
This benchmark compares the performance of npm, pnpm and Yarn (both regular and PnP variant).
Here's a quick explanation of how these tests could apply to the real world:
clean install: How long it takes to run a totally fresh install: no lockfile present, no packages in the cache, nonode_modulesfolder.with cache,with lockfile,with node_modules: After the first install is done, the install command is run again.with cache,with lockfile: When a repo is fetched by a developer and installation is first run.with cache: Same as the one above, but the package manager doesn't have a lockfile to work from.with lockfile: When an installation runs on a CI server.with cache,with node_modules: The lockfile is deleted and the install command is run again.with node_modules,with lockfile: The package cache is deleted and the install command is run again.with node_modules: The package cache and the lockfile is deleted and the install command is run again.update: Updating your dependencies by changing the version in thepackage.jsonand running the install command again.
The app's package.json here
| action | cache | lockfile | node_modules | npm | pnpm | Yarn | Yarn PnP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| install | 51s | 14.4s | 39.1s | 29.1s | |||
| install | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 5.4s | 1.3s | 707ms | n/a |
| install | ✔ | ✔ | 10.9s | 3.9s | 11s | 1.8s | |
| install | ✔ | 33.4s | 6.5s | 26.5s | 17.2s | ||
| install | ✔ | 28.3s | 11.8s | 23.3s | 14.2s | ||
| install | ✔ | ✔ | 4.6s | 1.7s | 22.1s | n/a | |
| install | ✔ | ✔ | 6.5s | 1.3s | 713ms | n/a | |
| install | ✔ | 6.1s | 5.4s | 41.1s | n/a | ||
| update | n/a | n/a | n/a | 5.1s | 10.7s | 35.4s | 28.3s |
