Benchmark

Colfer's own benchmarks use the following 4 data samples.

var testData = []*Colfer{
	{Key: 1234567890, Host: "db003lz12", Port: 389, Size: 452, Hash: 0x488b5c2428488918, Ratio: 0.99, Route: true},
	{Key: 1234567891, Host: "localhost", Port: 22, Size: 4096, Hash: 0x243048899c24c824, Ratio: 0.20, Route: false},
	{Key: 1234567892, Host: "kdc.local", Port: 88, Size: 1984, Hash: 0x000048891c24485c, Ratio: 0.06, Route: false},
	{Key: 1234567893, Host: "vhost8.dmz.example.com", Port: 27017, Size: 59741, Hash: 0x5c2408488b9c2489, Ratio: 0.0, Route: true},
}

Numbers

The following tests were executed on a Intel i5-2520M (from Q1 2011) with OpenBSD 6.0.

C

BENCH Colfer 10000000 marshals avg 35ns
BENCH Colfer 10000000 umarshals avg 112ns
BENCH FlatBuffers 10000000 marshals avg 1091ns
BENCH FlatBuffers 10000000 unmarshals avg 215ns

Go

BenchmarkMarshal/colfer-2       30000000               134 ns/op              48 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarshal/protobuf-2     30000000               153 ns/op              52 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarshal/flatbuf-2       3000000              1360 ns/op             472 B/op         12 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshal/colfer-2     20000000               224 ns/op              84 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshal/protobuf-2           20000000               235 ns/op              84 B/op
  2 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshal/flatbuf-2            20000000               296 ns/op              84 B/op
  2 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarshalReuse/colfer-2          100000000               55.2 ns/op             0 B/op
  0 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarshalReuse/protobuf-2        100000000               75.8 ns/op             0 B/op
  0 allocs/op
BenchmarkMarshalReuse/flatbuf-2         10000000               450 ns/op               0 B/op
  0 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshalReuse/colfer-2        50000000               132 ns/op              20 B/op
  1 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshalReuse/protobuf-2      20000000               178 ns/op              20 B/op
  1 allocs/op
BenchmarkUnmarshalReuse/flatbuf-2       20000000               184 ns/op              20 B/op
  1 allocs/op

Java

20M marshals avg 79ns
20M marshals with buffer reuse avg 53ns
20M unmarshals avg 86ns

Others

• @alecthomas's Go serialization benchmarks GitHub
• @eishay's JVM serializers GitHub wiki