Microbenchmark

This page contains performance comparison data between Nino, MessagePack, and MemoryPack

Data Structures

Simple Class

[NinoType]
[MemoryPackable]
[MessagePackObject]
public partial class SimpleClass
{
    [Key(0)]
    public int Id;
    [Key(1)]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [Key(2)]
    public int[] Numbers { get; set; }
    [Key(3)]
    public List<DateTime> Dates { get; set; }
    [Key(4)]
    public Dictionary<int, string> Map1;
    [Key(5)]
    public Dictionary<int, int> Map2 { get; set; }
}

Simple Struct

[NinoType]
[MemoryPackable]
[MessagePackObject]
public partial struct SimpleStruct
{
    [Key(0)]
    public int Id;
    [Key(1)]
    public DateTime CreateTime;
}

Data Generation

Generation Function

Simple Class

public static SimpleClass Create()
{
    Random random = new Random();
    return new SimpleClass
    {
        Id = random.Next(),
        Name = "SimpleClass",
        Numbers = Enumerable.Range(0, 100).Select(n => random.Next()).ToArray(),
        Dates = Enumerable.Range(0, 10).Select(n => DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(random.Next())).ToList(),
        Map1 = Enumerable.Range(0, 10).ToDictionary(n => n, n => n.ToString()),
        Map2 = Enumerable.Range(0, 10).ToDictionary(n => n, n => n * 2)
    };
}

Simple Struct

public static SimpleStruct Create()
{
    Random random = new Random();
    return new SimpleStruct
    {
        Id = random.Next(),
        CreateTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(random.Next())
    };
}

Benchmark Data

_simpleClass = SimpleClass.Create();
_simpleClasses = Enumerable.Range(0, 30).Select(_ => SimpleClass.Create()).ToArray();
_simpleStruct = SimpleStruct.Create();
_simpleStructs = Enumerable.Range(0, 30).Select(_ => SimpleStruct.Create()).ToArray();

Benchmark Environment

BenchmarkDotNet v0.14.0, macOS Sonoma 14.4 (23E214) [Darwin 23.4.0]
Apple M1, 1 CPU, 8 logical and 8 physical cores
.NET SDK 9.0.100-rc.2.24474.11
  [Host]     : .NET 8.0.6 (8.0.624.26715), Arm64 RyuJIT AdvSIMD
  Job-IBNCAG : .NET 9.0.0 (9.0.24.47305), Arm64 RyuJIT AdvSIMD

Runtime=.NET 9.0  IterationCount=20  WarmupCount=1

Benchmark Result

Results are the time taken to serialize and deserialize the above data, in nanoseconds, the lower the better

Bar Chart

Results Table

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio	RatioSD	Payload
MessagePackDeserializeSimpleClass	1,189.1591 ns	2.6112 ns	3.0071 ns	3.44	0.02	-
MemoryPackDeserializeSimpleClass	386.6335 ns	6.0955 ns	6.2597 ns	1.12	0.02	-
NinoDeserializeSimpleClass	345.9820 ns	1.2995 ns	1.3345 ns	1.00	0.01	-
MessagePackSerializeSimpleClass	1,638.9940 ns	4.8849 ns	5.4295 ns	8.34	0.03	674B
MemoryPackSerializeSimpleClass	345.3897 ns	0.5703 ns	0.6102 ns	1.76	0.00	730B
NinoSerializeSimpleClass	196.4610 ns	0.1776 ns	0.2045 ns	1.00	0.00	738B
MessagePackDeserializeSimpleClasses	118,102.4352 ns	43.1878 ns	48.0031 ns	3.11	0.01	-
MemoryPackDeserializeSimpleClasses	39,079.8249 ns	32.2887 ns	33.1581 ns	1.03	0.00	-
NinoDeserializeSimpleClasses	37,926.0608 ns	96.1285 ns	106.8466 ns	1.00	0.00	-
MessagePackSerializeSimpleClasses	190,110.8829 ns	646.5527 ns	744.5710 ns	11.29	0.09	65.82KB
MemoryPackSerializeSimpleClasses	31,656.0714 ns	94.5945 ns	105.1415 ns	1.88	0.01	71.29KB
NinoSerializeSimpleClasses	16,840.9377 ns	111.0911 ns	123.4774 ns	1.00	0.01	72.08KB
MessagePackDeserializeSimpleStruct	48.9905 ns	0.0223 ns	0.0219 ns	130.80	0.17	-
MemoryPackDeserializeSimpleStruct	0.9634 ns	0.0158 ns	0.0169 ns	2.57	0.04	-
NinoDeserializeSimpleStruct	0.3746 ns	0.0004 ns	0.0005 ns	1.00	0.00	-
MessagePackSerializeSimpleStruct	141.2677 ns	0.3008 ns	0.3343 ns	38.20	0.19	16B
MemoryPackSerializeSimpleStruct	3.9620 ns	0.0240 ns	0.0246 ns	1.07	0.01	16B
NinoSerializeSimpleStruct	3.6983 ns	0.0161 ns	0.0172 ns	1.00	0.01	16B
MessagePackDeserializeSimpleStructs	2,794.3856 ns	2.4233 ns	2.7907 ns	33.28	0.15	-
MemoryPackDeserializeSimpleStructs	111.8475 ns	0.3823 ns	0.3926 ns	1.33	0.01	-
NinoDeserializeSimpleStructs	83.9682 ns	0.3803 ns	0.3905 ns	1.00	0.01	-
MessagePackSerializeSimpleStructs	13,915.2471 ns	18.5713 ns	19.8711 ns	171.61	0.32	1.57KB
MemoryPackSerializeSimpleStructs	86.5175 ns	1.1389 ns	1.3116 ns	1.07	0.02	1.57KB
NinoSerializeSimpleStructs	81.0850 ns	0.1019 ns	0.1047 ns	1.00	0.00	1.57KB