MiniRacer https://github.com/discourse/mini_racer is ready for testing.
Can you help out measuring how it improves performance for rake assets:precompile in your app?
rm -fr public/assets
RAILS_ENV=production time bundle exec rake assets:precompile
Gemfile. Remove therubyracer, add:gem 'execjs', github: 'rails/execjs'
gem 'mini_racer'
bundle install
Run:
rm -fr public/assets
RAILS_ENV=production time bundle exec rake assets:precompile
Running in a small Rails 5 application (ruby 2.3.1p112) the command:
time RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile
(after running rm -rf public/assets tmp/cache/assets)
therubyracer
30.90s user 0.91s system 100% cpu 31.744 total
system node (v4.4.4)
13.35s user 0.99s system 103% cpu 13.913 total
mini_racer
12.33s user 1.02s system 103% cpu 12.858 total
Are you guys deleting the sprockets cache (tmp/assets) between runs? I got several times speed up at first too but then after doing that the speed up was reduced to 25% (still good, but not as unbelievable as I first thought).
I've been using assets:clobber
Results after running rm -rf public/assets tmp/cache/assets before runs:
therubyracer:
67.42s user 3.39s system 95% cpu 1:14.36 total
mini_racer:
55.45s user 3.28s system 97% cpu 59.960 total
Cleared caches and made sure spring wasn't running. Results:
therubyracer: 3m50s user
mini_racer: 1m48s user
Before (therubracer)
21.35s user 6.19s system 96% cpu 28.639 totalAfter (mini_racer)
4.67s user 1.82s system 84% cpu 7.663 total