Mezon PHP Router is up to 82 times fatser then Bramus Router

Intro

Hi all! In this article we shall try to benchmark another php router — Bramus Router.

As usual we have two cases:

1. http server accepts request, launches php script, wich handles this request, and then all script data uploads from memory. All following requests are processed in the same way. In this case very critical to launch script as soon as possible and we do not have time for long pre-compilations and preparations. Because all of it will be lost after the script will finish working;
2. php script is launching, initiating all internal components (and router is one of them) and then starting processing requests. This case can be organized via for example react-php. It differs from the previous case because we can spend reasonable time to pre-compile routes for faster processing.

Benchmark principes

Here is our static routes generator

public static function generateBramusStaticRoutes(int $amount): \Bramus\Router\Router
{
    $router = new \Bramus\Router\Router();
    for ($i = 0; $i < $amount; $i ++) {
        $router->get('/static/' . $i, '\Mezon\Benchmark\staticCallback');
    }
    return $router;
}

And here is the generator for non-static routes

public static function generateBramusNonStaticRoutes(int $amount): \Bramus\Router\Router
{
    $router = new \Bramus\Router\Router();
    for ($i = 0; $i < $amount; $i ++) {
        $router->get('/param/' . $i . '/{id}', '\Mezon\Benchmark\paramCallback');
    }
    return $router;
}

Here is our test for the first case:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET';
for ($i = 0; $i < \Mezon\Benchmark\Base::$iterationsAmount; $i ++) {
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/static/' . rand(0, 1000 - 1);
    $router = \Mezon\Benchmark\RouteGenerator::generateBramusStaticRoutes(1000);
    $router->run();
}

And for the second case:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET';
$router = \Mezon\Benchmark\RouteGenerator::generateBramusStaticRoutes(1000);
$startTime = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < \Mezon\Benchmark\Base::$iterationsAmount; $i ++) {
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/static/' . rand(0, 1000 - 1);
    $router->run();
}

Results

As you can see Mezon Router is up to 82 times faster then Bramus Router almost in all cases. Traditionally Mezon does not work well with non-static routes but I swear I shall fix it soon )

What is mezon/router?

mezon/router now is:

• framework for routing with 100% code coverage
• 10.0 points on scrutinizer-ci.com
• router is a part of the Mezon Project

Repo on github.com: https://github.com/alexdodonov/mezon-router

It will be great if you will contribute something to this project. Documentation, sharing the project in your social media, bug fixing, refactoring, or even submitting issue with question or feature request. Thanks anyway )