New Workload: TypeScript standalone

[camillobruni]

Runs a in-memory typescript compilation of the immer library.

• npm run build downloads and build src/gen in-memory file contents for 3 different libs (for local testing)
• webpack is used to bundle the results
• There are some type warnings, but all files seem to be loaded

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[kmiller68]

Seems like a good workload, although sadly on it's last legs... I guess it will become a wasm benchmark when the Go transition happens 🙂

Can we add a README.md with the steps to rebuild?

[camillobruni]

Added README and license.

[kmiller68]

Looks like this test also has a bunch of comments that have non-latin1 characters in them. We should probably fix that.

That said, I'm a bit conflicted. It seems like this benchmark combines .ts source files into the final script, which seems odd. I would've expected that the .ts files we're going to parse/compile would come from side files that are loaded into JS strings and subsequently get passed to the typescript compiler. If those source files were non-latin1, I'd be fine with that but since they're mixed with the typescript compiler itself (IIUC, anyway) that seems harder.

[camillobruni]

Fair point, let me change that to something where we load the resources (.ts sources) separately and feed them as JS strings to TypeScriptCompileTest.compileTest();. That's also more in line with how other workloads currently handle resources, and it makes it easier to swap out the source projects for local testing.

[camillobruni]

• Updated the benchmark to load the config fils (tsconfig.json and files.json) separate and feed them to the TS compiler
• Updated webpack to use the UnicodeEscapePlugin just to be sure (will double check again after landing the 2-byte test)

[Constellation]

@camillobruni @kmiller68 One question I would like to discuss is whether we should include TypeScript test given that TypeScript mainline compiler is moving to golang. https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go

[camillobruni]

That's a fair point.

Some points:

• This is supposed to replace the existing typescript workloads
• In general I'm inclined to say that we most urgently need larger JS workloads.
• In terms of realisticness I feel this one is higher up than most of the old JS workloads
• I'm a bit worried that we don't enough good JS workloads (good as in large)

In short, if we don't want this one I think we need a solid replacement. I'd weight the need for more diverse workloads currently higher than whether or not it's realistic long term (and this is supposed to be a replacement for the existing typescript).

Alternatives:
Maybe we can turn this one too in a slightly more parse-heavy startup workload? That would balance maybe the workload a bit more?

What's your take on these points?

[kmiller68]

I spoke to Yusuke offline, we think the workload is fine. Maybe we can make the migration to Go slower than the JS version 🙂 and if/when that happens we can replace this with something else for JS4+

[camillobruni]

Definitely happy with keeping things a moving target 👍 nothing worse than a non-evovling benchmark suite.

[kmiller68]

Overall, LGTM but we can also address those after merging.