Esteemed Monks,
I like the declarative syntax of Moose. I don't like the 728% performance hit I get compared to using a simple blessed hashref. Even Mo, minimal as it is, offers only a 27% increase in speed compared to Moose.
Benchmark ResultsBenchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of blessed_hashref, hashref, mo, moose... blessed_hashref: 1.80017 wallclock secs ( 1.79 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.79 CPU) @ 558659.22/s (n=1000000) hashref: 1.37839 wallclock secs ( 1.38 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.38 CPU) @ 724637.68/s (n=1000000) mo: 11.6823 wallclock secs (11.67 usr + 0.00 sys = 11.67 CPU) @ 85689.80/s (n=1000000) moose: 14.8408 wallclock secs (14.82 usr + 0.00 sys = 14.82 CPU) @ 67476.38/s (n=1000000) Rate moose mo blessed_hashref hashref moose 67476/s -- -21% -88% -91% mo 85690/s 27% -- -85% -88% blessed_hashref 558659/s 728% 552% -- -23% hashref 724638/s 974% 746% 30% --
#!/usr/bin/perl -w package MooseState; use Moose; has 'name' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); has 'capital' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); has 'population' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', required => 1, ); __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); package MoState; use Mo qw(required); has 'name' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); has 'capital' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); has 'population' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Int', required => 1, ); package main; use strict; use warnings 'all'; use Benchmark qw( :all :hireswallclock ); my %args = ( name => 'Colorado', capital => 'Denver', population => 5_000_000, ); my $results = timethese(1_000_000, { blessed_hashref => \&blessed_hashref, hashref => \&hashref, moose => \&moose, mo => \&mo, }); cmpthese($results); sub blessed_hashref { my $state = bless { %args }, 'Foo'; }# end blessed_hashref() sub hashref { my $state = { %args }; }# end hashref() sub moose { my $state = MooseState->new( %args ); }# end moose() sub mo { my $state = MoState->new( %args ); }# end mo()
Is there something that can be done to make constructing Moose/Mo objects much, much faster?
Update
I see now that this is a stacked comparison in that my benchmark script is having Moose do more work than it should (checking isa and required fields). As Your Mother pointed out, Mouse::XS may just be the ticket, as it's Moosey and still very fast.
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