tinyBundled with esbuild, minified ESM, then gzip level 9:
| Minified | Gzip | |
|---|---|---|
| tinyini, the whole module | 3.55 KB | 1.63 KB |
tinyini, parse and stringify |
3.46 KB | 1.58 KB |
tinyini, parse only |
2.08 KB | 1.03 KB |
| ini, the whole module | 3.46 KB | 1.64 KB |
ini, parse and stringify, as confbox imports them |
3.51 KB | 1.66 KB |
ini is one CommonJS module, so a bundler keeps all of it and adds its CommonJS wrapper; its source alone minifies to 2.9 KB, 1.4 KB gzipped. tinyini's character loops take more code than ini's regular expressions, so the whole module is 0.1 KB larger minified. parse alone tree-shakes to 1.0 KB.
Median time per call on an Apple M4 with Node 26.13. foo.ini is ini's test fixture, .gitconfig is the one in test/samples, and the large file is 100 KB of generated sections with comments, quoted values, escapes, and arrays. Stringify uses whitespace: true, as confbox does.
| Operation | ini | tinyini | Speedup |
|---|---|---|---|
Parse foo.ini |
22.3 µs | 8.4 µs | 2.7x |
Parse .gitconfig |
19.2 µs | 7.2 µs | 2.7x |
| Parse a 100 KB file | 1.41 ms | 0.70 ms | 2.0x |
Stringify foo.ini |
10.3 µs | 4.0 µs | 2.6x |
Stringify .gitconfig |
15.5 µs | 7.5 µs | 2.1x |
| Stringify a 100 KB file | 1.27 ms | 0.44 ms | 2.9x |
ini matches each line against three regular expressions and walks every value a character at a time to find comments. tinyini looks at character codes once per line, builds a value character by character only when it has a backslash, and only calls JSON.parse on a single-quoted value that could be JSON, since a throw costs more than the parse. On the large file, about a third of tinyini's time goes to splitting the lines and building the null-prototype objects, which both do.