canister-profiling

Cryptographic libraries

Measure different cryptographic libraries written in both Motoko and Rust.

• SHA-2 benchmarks
  • SHA-256/SHA-512. Compute the hash of a 1M Wasm binary.
  • account_id. Compute the ledger account id from principal, based on SHA-224.
  • neuron_id. Compute the NNS neuron id from principal, based on SHA-256.
• Certified map. Merkle Tree for storing key-value pairs and generate witness according to the IC Interface Specification.
  • generate 10k. Insert 10k 7-character word as both key and value into the certified map.
  • max mem. For Motoko, it reports rts_max_heap_size after generate call; For Rust, it reports the Wasm’s memory page * 32Kb.
  • inc. Increment a counter and insert the counter value into the map.
  • witness. Generate the root hash and a witness for the counter.
  • upgrade. Upgrade the canister with the same Wasm. In Motoko, we use stable variable. In Rust, we convert the tree to a vector before serialization.

SHA-2

	binary_size	SHA-256	SHA-512	account_id	neuron_id
Motoko	199_257	282_867_517	262_958_028	34_369	25_335
Rust	596_836	82_782_948	56_788_520	42_522	41_228

Certified map

	binary_size	generate 10k	max mem	inc	witness	upgrade
Motoko	248_058	365_606_356	342_396	397_640	267_761	22_396_932
Rust	640_537	489_666_578	1_310_720	660_965	220_622	450_827_450

Environment

• dfx 0.24.0
• Motoko compiler 0.13.3 (source ff4il9yc-sfakbpl1-8z4dm2d6-ybdjncj7)
• rustc 1.81.0 (eeb90cda1 2024-09-04)
• ic-repl 0.7.6
• ic-wasm 0.9.0

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