PHP routing library benchmarks

This repo contains benchmarks for two PHP routing libraries:

• Symfony Routing both compiled and dynamic mode
• FastRoute in group count mode and mark mode

Symfony Routing in dynamic mode sequentially matches each route pattern against a URI. In compiled mode it matches static routes via dictionary lookup and dynamic routes with one giant pre-compiled regex.

FastRoute in group count mode matches batches of 10 to 30 route patterns against a URI. In mark mode it basically works like Symfony's compiled mode.

Running the bechmarks

composer run bench

This runs 10 iterations of the benchmarks after a warmup. The URLs are tested against around 300 routes which I exported from the open source application akaunting. I believe that the set of routes is representative for an medium sized application.

The following benchmarks are performed:

• URL that matches one of the first routes (with and without parameter)
• URL that matches a route in the middle (with and without parameter)
• URL that matches one of the last routes (with and without parameter)
• URL that does not match any route

Testing from the browser

The individual benchmarks can be run from the browser by serving public/index.php.

cd public
php -S localhost:8000