add nota benchmark; builds no longer continue on test fail

benchmarks/nota.js

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+var nota = use('nota')
+var os = use('os')
+var io = use('io')
+
+var ll = io.slurp('benchmarks/nota.json')
+
+var newarr = []
+var accstr = ""
+for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
+  accstr += i;
+  newarr.push(i.toString())
+}
+// Arrays to store timing results
+var jsonDecodeTimes = [];
+var jsonEncodeTimes = [];
+var notaEncodeTimes = [];
+var notaDecodeTimes = [];
+var notaSizes = [];
+
+// Run 100 tests
+for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+    // JSON Decode test
+    let start = os.now();
+    var jll = json.decode(ll);
+    jsonDecodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+
+    // JSON Encode test
+    start = os.now();
+    let jsonStr = JSON.stringify(jll);
+    jsonEncodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+
+    // NOTA Encode test
+    start = os.now();
+    var nll = nota.encode(jll);
+    notaEncodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+
+    // NOTA Decode test
+    start = os.now();
+    var oll = nota.decode(nll);
+    notaDecodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+}
+
+// Calculate statistics
+function getStats(arr) {
+    const avg = arr.reduce((a, b) => a + b) / arr.length;
+    const min = Math.min(...arr);
+    const max = Math.max(...arr);
+    return { avg, min, max };
+}
+
+// Pretty print results
+console.log("\n=== Performance Test Results (100 iterations) ===");
+console.log("\nJSON Decoding (ms):");
+const jsonDecStats = getStats(jsonDecodeTimes);
+console.log(`Average: ${jsonDecStats.avg.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Min: ${jsonDecStats.min.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Max: ${jsonDecStats.max.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+
+console.log("\nJSON Encoding (ms):");
+const jsonEncStats = getStats(jsonEncodeTimes);
+console.log(`Average: ${jsonEncStats.avg.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Min: ${jsonEncStats.min.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Max: ${jsonEncStats.max.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+
+console.log("\nNOTA Encoding (ms):");
+const notaEncStats = getStats(notaEncodeTimes);
+console.log(`Average: ${notaEncStats.avg.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Min: ${notaEncStats.min.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Max: ${notaEncStats.max.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+
+console.log("\nNOTA Decoding (ms):");
+const notaDecStats = getStats(notaDecodeTimes);
+console.log(`Average: ${notaDecStats.avg.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Min: ${notaDecStats.min.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+console.log(`Max: ${notaDecStats.max.toFixed(2)} ms`);
+