This benchmarking suite compares PHP Dependency Injection Containers. Its sort of an example project for PHPBench.

It is intended to be a base for developing a standard benchmarking suite for all of the PHP containers out there.

Including:

• PHP-DI.
• Symfony Dependency Injection.
• Pimple.
• PHPBench Container.
• Illuminate (Laravel) Container
• Php League Container
• Zend Service Manager
• Aura DI

Note that PHPBench Container is not a "real" container, but a minimal ad-hoc call-back based container used by PHPBench itself.

We take no responsiblity for the accuracy of these benchmarks. If you want to be sure of the results please clone this repository, look at the code, and run the benchmarks yourself.

If you are a container maintainer and you notice that the benchmarks are not fair, then please make a pull request.

The benchmarks do not cover all contingencies, infact they are currently quite limited. Please feel free to make pull requests as required.

aura/di                             3.1.0   A serializable dependency
injection container with constructor and setter injectio...
illuminate/container                v5.2.28 The Illuminate Container package.
league/container                    2.2.0   A fast and intuitive dependency injection container.
php-di/php-di                       5.2.2   The dependency injection container
phpbench/phpbench                   0.11.1  PHP Benchmarking Framework
pimple/pimple                       v3.0.2  Pimple, a simple Dependency
symfony/dependency-injection        v2.8.4  Symfony DependencyInjection
zendframework/zend-servicemanager   3.0.3

• All containers are expected to be optimized except in the unoptimized test.

Subjects (all executed 1000 times):

• GetOptimizedNode: Return a shared service (expected cache effect).
• GetUnoptimized: Return a shared service without optimization (i.e. no dumping of the container, etc).
• GetPrototype: Return a new instance of the service.
• Lifecycle: Instantiate the container and return a shared service.

50 iterations, 1000 revolutions, 5 warmup revolutions, stdev < 3%

NOTE: Memory is memory_get_peak_usage after executing the operation 1000 times.

benchmark | benchGetOptimized | benchGetUnoptimized | benchGetPrototype | benchLifecycle --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- PhpDiBench | 1,037,152b | 991,016b | 1,037,152b | 5,881,272b PhpBenchBench | 755,912b | | | 755,224b IlluminateBench | 987,304b | | 987,312b | 986,624b AuraDiBench | 881,248b | | 881,248b | 880,560b PimpleBench | 765,040b | | 765,040b | 764,352b SymfonyDiBench | 917,720b | 1,124,856b | 917,720b | 917,032b ZendServiceManagerBench | 902,984b | | 902,984b | 2,992,944b LeagueBench | 886,144b | | 886,144b | 2,716,696b

Alternatively you may look at the latest travis build.

$ composer install
$ ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=all

or

$ ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --store
$ ./vendor/bin/phpbench show latest --report=all

For the HTML report:

$ ./vendor/bin/phpbench show latest --report=all --output=container_html