DESCRIPTION

Let's use Benchmark::Featureset::ParamCheck to see how fast Type::Params is compared with other modules for validating positional parameters. (Hint: very fast.)

RESULTS

The results of running the script on a fairly low-powered laptop. Each parameter checking implementation is called 250,000 times. The table below displays the average time taken for each call in nanoseconds.

With Type::Tiny::XS

 Type::Params ....................................   2640 ns (378787/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Type::Tiny ......   3120 ns (320512/s)
 Pure Perl Implementation with Ref::Util::XS .....   3639 ns (274725/s)
 Naive Pure Perl Implementation ..................   4600 ns (217391/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Specio ..........  11719 ns (85324/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Moose ...........  12079 ns (82781/s)
 Data::Validator with Mouse ......................  51760 ns (19319/s)
 Data::Validator with Type::Tiny .................  51920 ns (19260/s)
 Data::Validator with Moose ......................  52120 ns (19186/s)
 MooseX::Params::Validate with Moose .............  83080 ns (12036/s)
 MooseX::Params::Validate with Type::Tiny ........  84839 ns (11786/s)

Without Type::Tiny::XS

 Pure Perl Implementation with Ref::Util::XS .....   3560 ns (280898/s)
 Naive Pure Perl Implementation ..................   4479 ns (223214/s)
 Type::Params ....................................   7879 ns (126903/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Type::Tiny ......   8319 ns (120192/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Specio ..........  11800 ns (84745/s)
 Params::ValidationCompiler with Moose ...........  12159 ns (82236/s)
 Data::Validator with Type::Tiny .................  51039 ns (19592/s)
 Data::Validator with Moose ......................  51559 ns (19394/s)
 Data::Validator with Mouse ......................  51760 ns (19319/s)
 MooseX::Params::Validate with Type::Tiny ........  82800 ns (12077/s)
 MooseX::Params::Validate with Moose .............  93160 ns (10734/s)

ANALYSIS

Type::Params (using Type::Tiny type constraints) provides the fastest convenient way of checking positional parameters for a function, whether or not Type::Tiny::XS is available.

The only way to beat it is to write your own type checking in longhand, but if Type::Tiny::XS is installed, you probably still won't be able to match Type::Params' speed.

Params::ValidationCompiler (also using Type::Tiny type constraints) is very nearly as fast.

Params::ValidationCompiler using other type constraints is also quite fast, and when Type::Tiny::XS is not available, Moose and Specio constraints run almost as fast as Type::Tiny constraints.

Data::Validator and MooseX::Params::Validate are far slower.

DEPENDENCIES

To run this script, you will need:

Module::Runtime, Benchmark::Featureset::ParamCheck.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014, 2017 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.