MsgPack vs. JSON vs. JSON Assoc comparison

This repo contains very simple and dumb code for comparing MsgPack, json_[en|de]code and json_[en|de]code with assoc = true.

These numbers were gathered for a benchmark published on thePHP Website.

Environment

This repository is being built by Travis CI. The current document available ran on the following specs:

• CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R); 1 @ 2,8 GHz; Cache 33 MB

• RAM: 7,79 GB

• OS: linux/amd64 (Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS - Xenial)

• PHP Version: 7.3.15 and 7.4.3

• MsgPack Version: 2.1.0

Results

The entity being encoded/decoded is available here.

Using PHP 7.4.3

MsgPack C Extension

• Encoded Size: 120799 bytes
• Encoded and Gzipped Size: 26074 bytes

Loops	Encoding Time (s)	Decoding Time (s)
1	0.00019	0.00051
10	0.00082	0.00194
100	0.00732	0.01700
1000	0.07250	0.16785
10000	0.72503	1.65804
100000	7.25324	16.71792

Json native extension

• Encoded Size: 143025 bytes
• Encoded and Gzipped Size: 26214 bytes

Loops	Encoding Time (s)	Decoding Time (s) {Assoc = False}	Decode Time (s) {Assoc = True}
1	0.00064	0.00167	0.00164
10	0.00340	0.00904	0.00866
100	0.03135	0.08136	0.07905
1000	0.30385	0.80416	0.77422
10000	3.02723	7.99221	7.74523
100000	30.29353	79.90700	77.48423

Using PHP 7.3.15

MsgPack C Extension

• Encoded Size: 120799 bytes
• Encoded and Gzipped Size: 26074 bytes

Loops	Encoding Time (s)	Decoding Time (s)
1	0.00020	0.00052
10	0.00088	0.00227
100	0.00810	0.01988
1000	0.07713	0.19712
10000	0.75569	1.93530
100000	7.51740	19.37039

Json native extension

• Encoded Size: 143025 bytes
• Encoded and Gzipped Size: 26214 bytes

Loops	Encoding Time (s)	Decoding Time (s) {Assoc = False}	Decode Time (s) {Assoc = True}
1	0.00066	0.00175	0.00173
10	0.00347	0.00922	0.00884
100	0.03158	0.08382	0.08083
1000	0.31668	0.82576	0.80127
10000	3.14228	8.27866	8.01997
100000	31.42415	82.53105	80.18064