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fastest-levenshtein

Fastest Levenshtein distance implementation in JS.


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What is fastest-levenshtein?

The fastest-levenshtein npm package is a JavaScript library that provides an efficient implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which is used to measure the difference between two sequences of characters. The package is optimized for performance and is useful for tasks such as fuzzy matching, spell checking, and similarity checking between strings.

What are fastest-levenshtein's main functionalities?

distance

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings, which is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions, or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.

const { distance } = require('fastest-levenshtein');
const dist = distance('kitten', 'sitting');
console.log(dist); // Output: 3

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fastest-levenshtein :rocket:

Fastest JS/TS implemenation of Levenshtein distance.
Measure the difference between two strings.

Build Status Coverage Status Language grade: JavaScript npm

$ npm i fastest-levenshtein

Usage

Node

const {distance, closest} = require('fastest-levenshtein')

// Print levenshtein-distance between 'fast' and 'faster' 
console.log(distance('fast', 'faster'))
//=> 2

// Print string from array with lowest edit-distance to 'fast'
console.log(closest('fast', ['slow', 'faster', 'fastest']))
//=> 'faster'

Deno

import {distance, closest} from 'https://deno.land/x/fastest_levenshtein/mod.ts'

// Print levenshtein-distance between 'fast' and 'faster' 
console.log(distance('fast', 'faster'))
//=> 2

// Print string from array with lowest edit-distance to 'fast'
console.log(closest('fast', ['slow', 'faster', 'fastest']))
//=> 'faster'

Benchmark

I generated 500 pairs of strings with length N. I measured the ops/sec each library achieves to process all the given pairs. Higher is better.

Test TargetN=4N=8N=16N=32N=64N=128N=256N=512N=1024
fastest-levenshtein44423237021076445951049291.586.6422.245.473
js-levenshtein2126110030293982422357.6214.773.7170.934
leven196886884160643611730.347.6041.9290.478
fast-levenshtein185776112126534589.4122.705.6761.4280.348
levenshtein-edit-distance229687445149340910928.077.0951.7890.445

Relative Performance

This image shows the relative performance between fastest-levenshtein and js-levenshtein (the 2nd fastest). fastest-levenshtein is always a lot faster. y-axis shows "times faster".

Benchmark

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

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Last updated on 02 Aug 2022

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