A Comparison of JS Publish/Subscribe Approaches

JavaScript performance comparison

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A Comparison of JS Publish/Subscribe Approaches

More info: publish/subscribe on Wikipedia.

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Preparation code

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/mroderick/PubSubJS/master/src/pubsub.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/kuwabarahiroshi/bloody-jquery-plugins/master/pubsub.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/bloody-jquery-plugins/55e41df9bf08f42378bb08b93efcb28555b61aeb/pubsub.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/gist/1695338/736bcf94f9226d975fce3ad4f2bc08ccbf176bad/pubsub.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/appendto/amplify/master/core/amplify.core.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/maccman/spine/master/lib/spine.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://raw.github.com/richardscarrott/ply/master/src/core.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.callback = function () {};
window.payload = {
  somekey: 'some value'
};

jQuery(function() {
  for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    jQuery(window).bind('my-event-' + i, callback);
    PubSub.subscribe('my-event-' + i, callback);
    jQuery.subscribe('my-event-' + i, callback);
    Events.subscribe('my-event-' + i, callback);
    App.subscribe('my-event-' + i, callback);
    amplify.subscribe('my-event-' + i, callback);
    Spine.bind('my-event-' + i, callback);
    Ply.core.listen('my-event-' + i, callback);
  }
});
</script>

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Test Ops/sec
jQuery Events
 
jQuery(window).trigger('my-event-9', payload);
 
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PubSubJS
 
PubSub.publish('my-event-9', payload);
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jQuery PubSub plugin
 
$.publish('my-event-9', [payload]);
 pending…
Pure JS PubSub
 
Events.publish('my-event-9', [payload]);
 pending…
Darcy Clarke
 
App.publish('my-event-9', [payload]);
 pending…
Amplify Pub/Sub
 
amplify.publish('my-event-9', payload);
 pending…
Spine Events
 
Spine.trigger('my-event-9', payload);
 pending…
Ply Notify/Listen
 
Ply.core.notify('my-event-9', window, payload);
 pending…

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