* [Benchmark directories](#benchmark-directories)

| Directory | Purpose |

| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| assert | Benchmarks for the `assert` subsystem. |

| buffers | Benchmarks for the `buffer` subsystem. |

| child\_process | Benchmarks for the `child_process` subsystem. |

| crypto | Benchmarks for the `crypto` subsystem. |

| dgram | Benchmarks for the `dgram` subsystem. |

| domain | Benchmarks for the `domain` subsystem. |

| es | Benchmarks for various new ECMAScript features and their pre-ES2015 counterparts. |

| events | Benchmarks for the `events` subsystem. |

| fixtures | Benchmarks fixtures used in various benchmarks throughout the benchmark suite. |

| fs | Benchmarks for the `fs` subsystem. |

| http | Benchmarks for the `http` subsystem. |

| http2 | Benchmarks for the `http2` subsystem. |

| misc | Miscellaneous benchmarks and benchmarks for shared internal modules. |

| module | Benchmarks for the `module` subsystem. |

| net | Benchmarks for the `net` subsystem. |

| path | Benchmarks for the `path` subsystem. |

| perf\_hooks | Benchmarks for the `perf_hooks` subsystem. |

| process | Benchmarks for the `process` subsystem. |

| querystring | Benchmarks for the `querystring` subsystem. |

| streams | Benchmarks for the `streams` subsystem. |

| string\_decoder | Benchmarks for the `string_decoder` subsystem. |

| timers | Benchmarks for the `timers` subsystem, including `setTimeout`, `setInterval`, .etc. |

| tls | Benchmarks for the `tls` subsystem. |

| url | Benchmarks for the `url` subsystem, including the legacy `url` implementation and the WHATWG URL implementation. |

| util | Benchmarks for the `util` subsystem. |

| vm | Benchmarks for the `vm` subsystem. |