PHP Serialisation benchmarks

This benchmark shows the performance of the PHP serialisation functions and also payload size.

• Native json_encode() and json_decode() functions
• Native serialize() and unserialize() functions
• Igbinary extension
• Valinor
• Protobuf
• Laravel SerializableClosure
• Symfony Serializer Component.

php app.php bench:serializers --iterations=10000

Results

Data Encoding

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  #       JSON array             JSON object            Ig Binary array        Ig Binary object       Native serializer array   Native serializer object   Protobuf object        Symfony array           Symfony object           Valinor array          SerializableClosure array   SerializableClosure object
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  min     0.00092 ms - 0 bytes   0.00097 ms - 0 bytes   0.00108 ms - 0 bytes   0.00122 ms - 0 bytes   0.00089 ms - 0 bytes      0.00105 ms - 0 bytes       0.00059 ms - 0 bytes   0.0203 ms - 0 bytes     0.10181 ms - 0 bytes     0.00098 ms - 0 bytes   0.00997 ms - 0 bytes        0.03151 ms - 0 bytes
  max     0.13357 ms - 0 bytes   0.00183 ms - 0 bytes   0.00667 ms - 0 bytes   0.00922 ms - 0 bytes   0.00447 ms - 0 bytes      0.00344 ms - 0 bytes       0.0088 ms - 0 bytes    0.32826 ms - 2.00 MB    0.17658 ms - 0 bytes     0.00422 ms - 0 bytes   0.03579 ms - 0 bytes        0.12458 ms - 0 bytes
  avg     0.001 ms - 0 bytes     0.00106 ms - 0 bytes   0.00115 ms - 0 bytes   0.0019 ms - 0 bytes    0.00096 ms - 0 bytes      0.00111 ms - 0 bytes       0.00063 ms - 0 bytes   0.02103 ms - 0 bytes    0.10659 ms - 0 bytes     0.00106 ms - 0 bytes   0.01023 ms - 0 bytes        0.03221 ms - 0 bytes
  total   5.48794 ms - 0 bytes   4.15794 ms - 0 bytes   4.83834 ms - 2.00 MB   4.944 ms - 0 bytes     3.98199 ms - 0 bytes      4.29533 ms - 0 bytes       3.58858 ms - 0 bytes   25.34349 ms - 2.00 MB   112.33992 ms - 0 bytes   5.75869 ms - 0 bytes   14.06173 ms - 0 bytes       37.0032 ms - 0 bytes
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  Order   - 3 -                  - 4 -                  - 7 -                  - 8 -                  - 2 -                     - 6 -                      - 1 -                  - 10 -                  - 12 -                   - 5 -                  - 9 -                       - 11 -
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Data Decoding

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  #       JSON array             JSON object            Ig Binary array        Ig Binary object       Native serializer array   Native serializer object   Protobuf object        Symfony array           Symfony object          Valinor array            SerializableClosure array   SerializableClosure object
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  min     0.00261 ms - 0 bytes   0.0026 ms - 0 bytes    0.00119 ms - 0 bytes   0.00198 ms - 0 bytes   0.00133 ms - 0 bytes      0.00224 ms - 0 bytes       0.00137 ms - 0 bytes   0.06613 ms - 0 bytes    0.06661 ms - 0 bytes    0.20272 ms - 0 bytes     0.01709 ms - 0 bytes        0.03706 ms - 0 bytes
  max     0.01227 ms - 0 bytes   0.00535 ms - 0 bytes   0.03775 ms - 0 bytes   0.02017 ms - 0 bytes   0.12396 ms - 0 bytes      0.1068 ms - 0 bytes        0.02317 ms - 0 bytes   0.75286 ms - 0 bytes    0.16183 ms - 0 bytes    1.88834 ms - 0 bytes     0.26208 ms - 0 bytes        0.16979 ms - 0 bytes
  avg     0.00281 ms - 0 bytes   0.00304 ms - 0 bytes   0.0015 ms - 0 bytes    0.00232 ms - 0 bytes   0.00225 ms - 0 bytes      0.00268 ms - 0 bytes       0.00142 ms - 0 bytes   0.06902 ms - 0 bytes    0.06898 ms - 0 bytes    0.21545 ms - 0 bytes     0.01785 ms - 0 bytes        0.04083 ms - 0 bytes
  total   6.1935 ms - 0 bytes    6.10782 ms - 0 bytes   4.66907 ms - 0 bytes   5.49897 ms - 0 bytes   5.92023 ms - 0 bytes      6.31746 ms - 0 bytes       4.70763 ms - 0 bytes   76.47717 ms - 0 bytes   74.49863 ms - 0 bytes   228.47132 ms - 0 bytes   22.71963 ms - 0 bytes       45.79335 ms - 0 bytes
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  Order   - 6 -                  - 7 -                  - 2 -                  - 4 -                  - 3 -                     - 5 -                      - 1 -                  - 11 -                  - 10 -                  - 12 -                   - 8 -                       - 9 -
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Data Size in Bytes
+------------+-------------+-----------------+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+---------------+----------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+
| JSON array | JSON object | Ig Binary array | Ig Binary object | Native serializer array | Native serializer object | Protobuf object | Symfony array | Symfony object | Valinor array | SerializableClosure array | SerializableClosure object |
+------------+-------------+-----------------+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+---------------+----------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+
| 430        | 430         | 348             | 482              | 635                     | 848                      | 193             | 430           | 430            | 430           | 961                       | 1174                       |
+------------+-------------+-----------------+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+---------------+----------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+