Performance Analysis and Comparison of Acceleration Methods in Java']JavaScript Environments Based on Simplified Standard Hough Transform Algorithm

In this paper, we present an analysis of popular acceleration methods in JavaScript execution environments including Chrome, Firefox, Node, and Deno. We focus evenly on adopting the same code-base to take advantage of every method, benchmarking our solutions and caveats of building libraries compatible with multiple environments. To compare performance, we use a simplified standard Hough transform algorithm. As reference points of our benchmarks, we use a sequential version of the algorithm written in both JavaScript and C++. Our study shows that Chrome is the fastest JS environment in every benchmark and Firefox is the slowest in which we identified optimization problems. WebGL appears as the fastest acceleration method. Without parallel execution native C++ addon in Node is the most performant. This analysis will help to find the most efficient way to speed up execution making JavaScript a more robust environment for CPU-intensive computations.