benchmark.md

We did a performance comparison using kelonio, to measure the time it takes to send the same transaction during 100 iterations.

The final results are a difference of 67% (974 ms):

blockweave: 961 ms
arweave: 1935ms

If you want to run it yourself. Here's the code we used:

import { measure } from "kelonio";
import Arweave from 'arweave';
import Blockweave from 'blockweave';

(async () => {
    const blockweave = new Blockweave({ url: 'https://arweave.net' });

    measure(async () => {
        const wallet = await blockweave.wallets.generate();

        const tx = await blockweave.createTransaction({
            data: 'Hello, World!'
        }, wallet);
        await tx.sign();
        await tx.post();
    }).then(m => console.log(`Blockweave version: ${m.mean} ms`));


    const ar = Arweave.init({
        host: 'arweave.net',
        port: 443,
        protocol: 'https'
    });

    measure(async () => {
        const wallet = await ar.wallets.generate();

        const tx = await ar.createTransaction({
            data: 'Hello, World!'
        }, wallet);
        await ar.transactions.sign(tx, wallet);
        await ar.transactions.post(tx);
    }).then(m => console.log(`Arweave version: ${m.mean} ms`));
})();