This page benchmarks the performance of a collection of matrix libraries most of which are intended for use with WebGL:
glMatrix (v3.4.0, 2023-4-11),
mjs (rev 16, 2010-12-15),
CanvasMatrix,
EWGL_math (rev 32, 2011-03-15),
the math utilities in Google's Closure (svn rev: 1364, 2011-11-3),
tdl (commit: 59d484f, 2011-06-03),
twgl.js (v3.3.0, 2017-05-05),
wgpu-matrix (v1.0.0, 2023-04-1), and
Sylvester (v0.1.3, 2007-07-05).
Benchmarks for each library are run in an iframe. Results measure millions of iterations per second of the target operation.
| Library | Multiplication | Translation | Scaling | Rotation (Arbitrary axis) | Rotation (X axis) | Transpose | Inverse | Vector Transformation | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wgpu-matrix-native | |||||||||
| wgpu-matrix-float64 | |||||||||
| wgpu-matrix | |||||||||
| w-alloc | |||||||||
| twgl-native | |||||||||
| twgl-math-native | |||||||||
| twgl-math | |||||||||
| twgl-float64 | |||||||||
| twgl | |||||||||
| t-alloc | |||||||||
| mjs | |||||||||
| glm-js-gl-matrix | |||||||||
| glm-js | |||||||||
| glMatrix-native | |||||||||
| glMatrix-float64 | |||||||||
| glMatrix | |||||||||
| closure | |||||||||
| Three | |||||||||
| TDLMath | |||||||||
| TDLFast | |||||||||
| Sylvester | |||||||||
| DOMMatrix | |||||||||
| CanvasMatrix |
Adapted by Stephen Bannasch from the benchmarks Brandon Jones created in his glmatrix library.
Additional improvements by Gregg Tavares.
Sylvester benchmarks by Felix E. Klee.
JavaScript Plotting library: Flotr;
Sortable Table by Andrew Tetlaw.
The source code for these benchmarks can be found here on github. Pull requests quite welcome!