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Benchmarks description:

Tested frameworks

Benchmarks explained

  • All benchmarks measure throughput; higher score is better.
  • Attempt to be as similar as possible across frameworks.
  • Run with entityCount: 1024, 4096, 16384 and 65536.
  • Share the same random seed.
  • Raw, unprocessed results, here: https://github.com/junkdog/entity-system-benchmarks/tree/master/results
  • Additional data:
    • OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.5) (7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu1)
    • Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40GHz

Component iteration benchmarks:

  • Have 3 entity systems updating a position component.
  • An Entity Deleter system: each 100th tick an entity is deleted and a new entity is created the next tick.
  • There are 3 types of iteration benchmarks:
    • baseline: position isn't updated, not included in charts.
    • plain: position component is the default component type.
    • pooled: pooling all components.

Insert/remove benchmarks:

  • Chooses from up to 144 different entity compositions.
  • Each tick, removes/inserts 1/4 of the total entityCount.
  • When creating entities, a random composition is selected.
    • The composition is randomly chosen, but shared across all frameworks/benchmarks.

Add/remove components benchmarks:

  • Have 3 BaselinePositionSystems.
  • Each tick, toggles the Position component for 1/4 all entities.
    • Entities are chosen from a pre-shuffled list of entity ids.
  • Two types of benchmarks:
    • entity_edit: Toggling achieve by calling entity.edit().create/remove
    • transmuter: Toggles using the EntityTransmuter class.

Benchmark results

As usual, writing microbenchmarks is tricky business - take the numbers with a grain of salt. These benchmarks should not be interpreted as benchmarking each framework as a whole, though they aim to give a hint of each framework's performance.

Things that might concern

  • Overall, ashley-realted benchmarks may be improved; I'm not very familiar with the framework.
  • I never got pooling working with Ashley-1.2.0. Ashley-1.0.1:s pooling benchmarks had an error, but considering it's now so old, I'd rather fix the benchmark for the most recent version.
  • artemis-odb's PackedComponent benchmarks only have a single component implementation, skewing the benchmark results in its favor.

artemis-odb_fast benchmarks

Artemis-odb-0.7.0 added support for automatically rewriting the generated class files of EntitySystems in order to achieve higher performance. The source code itself remains identical. More about it on the artemis-odb wiki: Hotspot Optimization.

Benchmarks: 4096 entites

it4k ir4k arc4k

ECS baseline plain pooled insert/remove edit transmute
artemis-odb-0.4.0 10609.16 6673.70 774.12
artemis-odb-0.9.0 11776.13 10949.46 11476.16 3219.62 5435.99 6912.18
artemis-odb-0.9.0_fast 13440.43 11988.66 12502.18 3245.35 5566.49 7144.00
artemis-odb-1.0.1 12395.24 10373.89 11563.60 3060.74 7827.03 9362.37
artemis-odb-1.0.1_fast 15000.39 11546.26 12953.15 3172.14 7995.48 10208.75
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1 12442.58 11098.03 12209.97 6217.78 8585.09 10495.03
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1_fast 15010.39 11920.99 13146.79 6225.45 9274.83 11296.83
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2 12426.67 11093.07 12232.79 6101.39 8692.16 10723.12
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2_fast 15061.05 12022.86 13247.54 6300.21 9326.63 11568.29
ashley-1.6.0 9621.74 4992.19 1710.13
gdx-artemis-0.5.0 9974.36 7545.31 1545.58
retinazer-0.2.0 19965.98 10485.84 8589.60 21339.54

Benchmarks: 16384 entites

it16k ir16k arc16k

ECS baseline plain pooled insert/remove edit transmute
artemis-odb-0.4.0 2613.93 2027.73 156.16
artemis-odb-0.9.0 2945.44 2867.71 2871.12 519.20 1248.99 1523.36
artemis-odb-0.9.0_fast 3361.41 3115.78 3098.69 521.04 1273.50 1578.94
artemis-odb-1.0.1 3111.22 2915.28 2950.20 536.95 1831.17 2424.73
artemis-odb-1.0.1_fast 3762.55 3199.09 3292.84 541.52 2012.89 2614.00
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1 3052.38 3036.99 3088.56 1495.83 2109.25 2620.57
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1_fast 3768.35 3256.18 3282.56 1513.29 2299.33 2805.50
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2 3063.18 3025.16 3088.51 1495.83 2201.62 2581.02
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2_fast 3770.17 3280.94 3280.77 1543.03 2349.88 2817.17
ashley-1.6.0 2357.24 747.36 157.02
gdx-artemis-0.5.0 2518.07 2257.00 375.60
retinazer-0.2.0 4989.42 2779.12 1832.26 5237.94

Benchmarks: 65536 entites

it64k ir64k arc64k

ECS baseline plain pooled insert/remove edit transmute
artemis-odb-0.4.0 321.93 231.24 23.06
artemis-odb-0.9.0 643.59 715.33 641.39 94.49 257.62 342.33
artemis-odb-0.9.0_fast 837.87 778.02 779.91 93.59 266.31 353.99
artemis-odb-1.0.1 777.32 721.85 722.76 96.40 433.83 587.22
artemis-odb-1.0.1_fast 940.23 804.48 803.49 95.85 440.08 630.28
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1 754.81 761.89 764.03 324.07 531.41 623.48
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1_fast 942.25 798.78 818.32 334.10 570.92 688.43
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2 755.53 743.70 747.61 325.39 546.60 642.08
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2_fast 941.18 815.75 818.53 336.52 582.39 694.83
ashley-1.6.0 272.72 74.12 12.58
gdx-artemis-0.5.0 341.71 374.17 67.38
retinazer-0.2.0 1136.29 670.11 279.42 1262.34

Benchmarks: 262144 entites

it256k ir256k arc256k

ECS baseline plain pooled insert/remove edit transmute
artemis-odb-0.4.0 71.62 55.36 2.24
artemis-odb-0.9.0 160.87 132.16 132.82 12.82 32.40 54.80
artemis-odb-0.9.0_fast 209.12 159.65 153.97 13.03 31.91 55.51
artemis-odb-1.0.1 175.67 137.73 136.02 14.48 88.26 135.43
artemis-odb-1.0.1_fast 235.38 156.37 156.06 14.56 91.62 148.32
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1 175.42 137.92 137.77 58.08 123.32 153.13
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC1_fast 235.92 145.90 145.43 62.89 124.02 159.13
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2 177.21 138.00 136.71 63.99 98.55 151.73
artemis-odb-2.0.0-RC2_fast 232.51 147.59 146.88 62.76 134.52 163.33
ashley-1.6.0 47.45 15.78 0.85
gdx-artemis-0.5.0 96.69 75.71 12.85
retinazer-0.2.0 311.30 159.43 26.61 282.48

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