A collection of benchmarks for the various TLDR implementations.
These benchmarks aim to provide a comparison for one who wants to choose an implementation based on overall performance, installation time and project maintenance.
| Client | Language | Time to show tar page (mean ± σ) |
Time to Generate Cache | Time to check for cache update (mean ± σ) | Last Commit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tealdeer | Rust | 152.0 ms ± 53.4 | 00:05.45 | 5462.7 ms ± 381.2 | 5 weeks ago | on brew |
| fast-tldr | Haskell | 171.1 ms ± 57.0 | 00:06.971 | 5023.3 ms ± 578.5 | 1 year, 1 month ago | not packaged |
| tlrc | Rust | 206.6 ms ± 228.4 | 00:02.872 | 658.4 ms ± 69.8 | 2 days ago | on brew |
| tldr-c-client | C | 234.6 ms ± 119.0 | 00:04.44 | 3726.2 ms ± 375.7 | 4 months ago | on brew |
| tldr-bash | BASH | 238.4 ms ± 35.8 | 00:05.337 | 825.4 ms ± 182.0 | 6 years ago | single file |
| tldr-python-client | Python | 300.9 ms ± 50.4 | 00:02.771 | 1423.0 ms ± 127.5 | 4 months ago | needs pip |
| tldr-node-client | JavaScript | 966.0 ms ± 414.1 | 02:01.11 | 96950.0 ms ± 4431.6 | 3 weeks ago | needs npm |
| Client | Language | Time to show tar page (mean ± σ) |
Time to Generate Cache | Time to check for cache update (mean ± σ) | Last Commit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tealdeer | Rust | 18.0 ms ± 1.3 | 00:01.404 | 1939.0 ms ± 8.9 | 5 weeks ago | on apt |
| tldr-bash | BASH | 78.5 ms ± 2.7 | 00:02.13 | 603.0 ms ± 10.6 | 6 years ago | single file |