New PHP router wich is 30 to 50 times faster then Laravel router

2 min readSep 15, 2020

Intro

Hello everybody! It is time to benchmark another well known router — Laravel router (to be precise — Illuminate\Routing).

Like in the previous articles we shall test static routes and routes with parameters in them.

Static routes we shall benchmark in this way:

// repeat this in loop
with(new Illuminate\Routing\RoutingServiceProvider($app))->register();
$app['router']->get('/static', function () {
    return 'static';
});
$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::createFromGlobals();
$app['router']->dispatch($request);

And routes with parameters will be benchmarked like this:

with(new Illuminate\Routing\RoutingServiceProvider($app))->register();
$app['router']->get('/{id}', function () {
    return 'param';
});
$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::createFromGlobals();
$app['router']->dispatch($request);

Results are quite astonishing (the bigger numbers you see, the better it is)!