Performance benchmarks

Stupid Head · Post by **Stupid Head** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:25 pm

I remember Wladimir saying that Filterset.G has processing times of 80ms. How would I measure the performance myself? I'm thinking of comparing Filterset.G and EasyList to see which one is better for Adblock Plus and post it on my blog.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:24 am

I didn't release the tool yet, so I'll simply tell you the times I measured on my computer. Since Filterset.G is currently down I am using the version from 2006-06-04. That's blacklist only:

Filterset.G vanilla: 65ms
Filterset.G deregified: 35ms
EasyList: 27ms

Pretty much every filter list on http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions has the same performance as EasyList (plus/minus a couple of milliseconds). The only two exceptions have a note that tells so.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:26 am

Oh, and just a note - if there are two filter lists that need 25 ms separately, it doesn't mean that together they will need 50 ms. Usually they will need something like 30 ms because most filters used there don't cause any slowdown at all.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:36 am

Wow 27ms!

That is great info to know, Wladimir. I guess fixing a lot of my filters to fit the "8-unbroken character" rule made a big difference

Wasn't I up in the 60ms area before? ... and all this increase in speed was actually happening while I was actually increasing the size of the filter and number of strings in it!

I guess this just proves that your system is working as you predicted it would.

Congratulations on a very efficient and well-maximized update for ABP (clap-clap).

*edit* I actually HAVE noticed that the filter is much faster, even using the element filter and the added whitelistings (I bow in your presence, master

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dutchmega · Post by **dutchmega** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:17 pm

Interesting. I'm curious how much ms dutchblock takes, considering it's by far the largest list (21kb)

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:34 pm

dutchmega wrote:Interesting. I'm curious how much ms dutchblock takes, considering it's by far the largest list (21kb)

Well, Robbie, I would say that you would qualify as one of those:

"Pretty much every filter list on http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions has the same performance as EasyList (plus/minus a couple of milliseconds). The only two exceptions have a note that tells so.

... and you don't have a "note"

Wladimir always said that the size didn't matter ... the structure did. I would say that you are 'optimized for ABP'

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:55 pm

dutchmega wrote:Interesting. I'm curious how much ms dutchblock takes, considering it's by far the largest list (21kb)

38ms

Stupid Head · Post by **Stupid Head** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:18 pm

It's up.

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 3:47 am

Stupid Head wrote:It's up.

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rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:26 am

Stupid Head wrote:It's up.

Cool