Slow compared to protobufjs #51
Description
Running a simple benchmark against gossipsub RPC encoding/decoding from before and after switching from protobufjs to protons shows a significant degradation in performance. ~20x slower encoding, ~10x slower decoding.
The performance degradation is serious enough that (js-libp2p-gossipsub) may need to either switch from this library or determine a refactor here that can achieve comparable results.
with protobufjs:
RPC
✔ encode 401606.4 ops/s 2.490000 us/op - 22116142 runs 60.8 s
✔ decode 452284.0 ops/s 2.211000 us/op - 24709315 runs 60.9 s
with protons:
RPC
✔ encode 24618.41 ops/s 40.62000 us/op - 1458781 runs 60.1 s
✔ decode 41540.31 ops/s 24.07300 us/op - 2439588 runs 60.0 s