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crypto: refactor crypto subsystem and introduce WebCrypto API by jasnell · Pull Request #35093 · nodejs/node

For anyone curious about the performance difference that the SubtleCrypto APIs will have relative to the legacy apis... Here's an example comparing crypto.createHash() to subtle.digest() ...

Keep in mind, however, that this is tracking raw execution speed, and ignores factors such as event loop delay, event loop utilization and memory. The createHash variant is purely sync, while the subtle version uses the libuv threadpool. Significantly, the createHash variant is one operation at a time, while the subtle queues up n hash jobs concurrently.

crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=10 sync="createHash": 94,602.60002001791
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=10 sync="createHash": 20,070.058150585086
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=10 sync="createHash": 55,681.77686340876
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=10 sync="createHash": 43,733.5794076068
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=20 sync="createHash": 70,726.74488714593
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=20 sync="createHash": 52,796.95289777924
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=20 sync="createHash": 92,470.48873704823
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=20 sync="createHash": 36,330.60193812862
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=50 sync="createHash": 93,567.16391376476
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=50 sync="createHash": 95,433.87100776259
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=50 sync="createHash": 69,989.07610500153
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=50 sync="createHash": 86,632.92891638233
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=100 sync="createHash": 62,713.004720533296
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=100 sync="createHash": 92,227.69542356953
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=100 sync="createHash": 58,363.47758314272
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=100 sync="createHash": 91,339.97478468656
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=10 sync="subtle": 13,358.364593130998
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=10 sync="subtle": 32,006.11342371284
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=10 sync="subtle": 22,250.87690149597
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=10 sync="subtle": 20,624.592264701296
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=20 sync="subtle": 51,008.840087031276
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=20 sync="subtle": 14,754.004273644876
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=20 sync="subtle": 46,213.40955095308
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=20 sync="subtle": 40,880.32676789835
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=50 sync="subtle": 22,610.031492156264
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=50 sync="subtle": 33,920.458018446894
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=50 sync="subtle": 48,910.4416554189
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=50 sync="subtle": 12,468.43351102472
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-1" data=100 sync="subtle": 21,238.01034673388
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-256" data=100 sync="subtle": 25,608.43004933131
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-384" data=100 sync="subtle": 47,109.37798850117
crypto/webcrypto-digest.js n=1000 method="SHA-512" data=100 sync="subtle": 22,149.473507014736