This project benchmarks the most popular & feature rich PHP serializers. It measures the time consumed during the serialization of an object graph and give you a report of the execution.

The result of the benchmark is directly available on travis: https://travis-ci.org/php-serializers/ivory-serializer-benchmark

This repository is a fork of egeloen/ivory-serializer-benchmark, the project was looking not maintained for a while, please refer to this as the next reference point when benchmarking PHP serializers.

If you're interesting to use the project locally, follow the next steps.

The easiest way to set up the project is to install Docker and Docker Composer and build the project. The configuration is shipped with a distribution environment file allowing you to customize your current user/group ID:

$ cp .env.dist .env

The most important part is the USER_ID and GROUP_ID which should match your current user/group.

Once you have configured your environment, you can build the project:

$ docker-compose build

Install the dependencies via Composer:

$ docker-compose run --rm php composer install

We use PHPBench internally, with sane defaults setup for benchmarking the serializers.

To benchmark serialization, you can use:

$ docker-compose run --rm php ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=bench

By default, the benchmark runs 5 Revolutions and 5 Iterations. You can override either with the iterations and revs options.

$ docker-compose run --rm php ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=bench --iterations=10 --revs=10

By default, the benchmark runs different configurations of horizontal and vertical complexity. If you wish to specify your own, you can use the parameters option which is an array of two integers, the first representing the horizontal and the second representing the vertical complexity.

$ docker-compose run --rm php ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=bench --parameters='[1,2]'

If you want to run the benchmark only for a specific or subset of serializers, you can use the filter option:

$ docker-compose run --rm php ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=bench --filter=Symfony

You can see a list of the serializer available and its current version by running the following command:

$ docker-compose run --rm php ./vendor/bin/phpbench info

Available implementations:

• BetterSerializer
• Ivory
• JaneAutomapper
• Jms
• JmsMinimal
• JsonSerializable
• SerializardClosure
• SerializardReflection
• SymfonyGetSetNormalizer
• SymfonyObjectNormalizer
• TSantos
• Gson

We love contributors! PhpSerializers is an open source project. If you'd like to contribute, feel free to propose a PR!.

The Php Serializers Benchmark is under the MIT license. For the full copyright and license information, please read the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.