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Performance regression of instanceof in v7 and master

  • Version: v7 and master
  • Platform: Mac
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instanceof checks has become almost 100 times slower in Node v7+ (and current master)

var r = /hello/

console.time('instanceof RegExp')
for (var i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
  r instanceof RegExp
}
console.timeEnd('instanceof RegExp')

var o = {}

console.time('instanceof Object')
for (var i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
  o instanceof Object
}
console.timeEnd('instanceof Object')

In node v6:

$ node instanceof.js
instanceof RegExp: 133.519ms
instanceof Object: 134.572ms

In node v7:

$ node instanceof.js
instanceof RegExp: 9858.616ms
instanceof Object: 9839.696ms

I know this is a problem in V8, but I think it's good to track it here as well.

v8 issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5640

cc @fhinkel