buffer-bench

A benchmark of Flatbuffer / Protobuf / Raw struct for C++, designed to run on Linux

Updated Jun-2019 for use with latest versions of flatbuffer and protobuf

How to run

• Install flatbuffers Must use a custom version. This version has code generation modified to avoid duplicate declarations with newer versions of GRPC.
• Install grpc Must use a custom version. This version expose some private fields that flatbuffers need
• Install protobuf Will be installed together with grpc above
• Install evpp
• Install zlib sudo apt-get install zlibc
• Open in CLion
• Sync CMake project
• Press build
• Run make in /flatbuffer
• Run runAll.sh
• Result will be written to result.txt

Sample result

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FLATBUF bench start...
total bytes = 15898507595776707224
* 0.003065 create time
* 0.238328 receive time
* 0.002950 use
* 0.000782 free
* 0.245125 total time
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PROTOBUF bench start...
total bytes = 0
* 0.000766 create time
* 0.244944 receive time
* 0.001007 use
* 0.000785 free
* 0.247503 total time
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RAW bench start...
total bytes = 54377074000
* 0.001709 create time
* 0.002417 receive time
* 0.000813 use
* 0.000759 free
* 0.005699 total time