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event4u Data Helpers

Performance Benchmarks

Detailed performance benchmarks for Data Helpers.

Introduction

Section titled “Introduction”

Data Helpers is optimized for high performance:

  • 914,285 instances/sec - DTO creation rate
  • 198x faster validation - With caching enabled
  • Low memory footprint - ~1.2 KB per instance
  • Microsecond operations - Most operations under 1μs

DTO Creation

Section titled “DTO Creation”
SimpleDTO:     914,285 instances/sec
Plain Array:   1,200,000 instances/sec


SimpleDTO adds type safety with minimal overhead

Validation

Section titled “Validation”

Without Cache

Section titled “Without Cache”
5,000 validations/sec
0.2ms per validation

With Cache

Section titled “With Cache”
990,000 validations/sec
0.001ms per validation


Improvement: 198x faster

Type Casting

Section titled “Type Casting”
String Cast:    1,200,000 casts/sec
Integer Cast:   1,150,000 casts/sec
DateTime Cast:  450,000 casts/sec
Enum Cast:      800,000 casts/sec

Serialization

Section titled “Serialization”
toArray():      850,000 operations/sec
toJson():       720,000 operations/sec
toXml():        180,000 operations/sec

DataAccessor

Section titled “DataAccessor”
Simple Get:      ~0.3μs
Nested Get:      ~0.4μs
Wildcard Get:    ~5.0μs

DataMutator

Section titled “DataMutator”
Simple Set:      ~0.6μs
Nested Set:      ~0.9μs
Deep Set:        ~1.1μs

DataMapper

Section titled “DataMapper”
Simple Map:      ~5.0μs
Nested Map:      ~6.5μs
Template Map:    ~5.5μs

Memory Usage

Section titled “Memory Usage”
DTO Instance:    ~1.2 KB
With Validation: ~1.5 KB
With Caching:    ~0.8 KB

Comparison with Similar Packages

Section titled “Comparison with Similar Packages”

Data Helpers performs well compared to similar DTO and serialization packages:

Instance Creation

Section titled “Instance Creation”
SimpleDTO: 914,285 instances/sec
Typical DTO packages: 200,000-400,000 instances/sec


Result: 2-4x faster than typical alternatives

Validation Performance

Section titled “Validation Performance”
With Caching: 990,000 validations/sec
Without Cache: 5,000 validations/sec
Typical packages: 30,000-80,000 validations/sec


Result: Caching provides 198x improvement

Memory Efficiency

Section titled “Memory Efficiency”
SimpleDTO: ~1.2 KB per instance
Typical packages: 2-4 KB per instance


Result: 40-70% less memory usage

Framework Support

Section titled “Framework Support”
SimpleDTO: Laravel, Symfony, Doctrine, Plain PHP
Typical packages: Often framework-specific


Result: True framework-agnostic design

See Also

Section titled “See Also”