This repo is made just out of curiosity and has an experimental reasoning.
There are 4 structs: Tiny, Medium, Big, Huge which are being compared against all the defined formats above.
And there is a separate struct to compare Gob vs JSON only - a struct called ComplexAndHuge which holds a slice of type complexMap map[string]Huge.
Each of them has a respective size and complexity. And each of them builds the following targets to run encoding & decoding benchmarks against:
Singlemeans a single struct - eg -Tiny{}Slicemeans a slice of given struct - eg -[]TinyPointer Slicemeans a slice of pointers to given struct - eg -[]*Tiny
You can just look at and analyze the results I got while running on my machine by observing csv samples in results_run/sample/ dir.
Also, feel free to play on your own by doing the following:
Run a corresponding Make command in terminal and observe the results in results_run/ dir.
Otherwise run make-all in order to run everything. Warning: beware as it's a very CPU/RAM consuming operation.
Software and Hardware: The experiment is run on:
- MacBook Pro 2021 15" with macOS Ventura 13.2.1
- 32gb RAM
- Apple M1 Pro CPU
- Go 1.19.5
Here is the full analysis of mine about all the results run: Analysis.md
goos: darwin
goarch: arm64
pkg: github.com/RSheremeta/gob-serialization
BenchmarkDecodePtrSliceComplexMap/type=GOB_struct_size=huge_complex_map-10 10 646447171 ns/op 630836108 B/op 11072058 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSliceComplexMap/type=JSON_struct_size=huge_complex_map-10 10 6356559012 ns/op 1610172119 B/op 18605410 allocs/op
PASS
ok github.com/RSheremeta/gob-serialization 85.338sgoos: darwin
goarch: arm64
pkg: github.com/RSheremeta/gob-serialization
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 1146312 1037 ns/op 1136 B/op 20 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 11647294 101.6 ns/op 48 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 1247809 960.3 ns/op 4560 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 404588 2924 ns/op 6776 B/op 23 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 420466 2786 ns/op 1720 B/op 38 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 1995039 611.5 ns/op 240 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 409347 2731 ns/op 5053 B/op 14 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 132667 8870 ns/op 17112 B/op 56 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 227510 5232 ns/op 3072 B/op 65 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 461298 2522 ns/op 944 B/op 6 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 127340 9153 ns/op 6034 B/op 21 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=big-10 33507 34729 ns/op 80288 B/op 176 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 224 5244342 ns/op 7035920 B/op 44617 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 62 17295433 ns/op 6592181 B/op 39871 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 14 78271318 ns/op 19909926 B/op 97568 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 4 298569250 ns/op 845118380 B/op 1215044 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 132409 9390 ns/op 6760 B/op 179 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 2591954 461.0 ns/op 248 B/op 6 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 627777 1931 ns/op 1480 B/op 33 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 263422 4338 ns/op 7280 B/op 52 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 92902 12639 ns/op 8604 B/op 235 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 646796 1797 ns/op 440 B/op 14 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 135865 9034 ns/op 3608 B/op 92 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 101642 11995 ns/op 10724 B/op 126 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 69265 17420 ns/op 11557 B/op 324 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 194416 6186 ns/op 1080 B/op 32 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 37994 31857 ns/op 10376 B/op 280 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 29328 40508 ns/op 23081 B/op 386 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 277 4408610 ns/op 4108664 B/op 71653 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 27 42904093 ns/op 12024463 B/op 120170 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 5 224652383 ns/op 74270280 B/op 1836139 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSingle/type=YAML_struct_size=huge#01-10 4 280739250 ns/op 121876510 B/op 2425871 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 766519 1588 ns/op 1392 B/op 22 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 3311300 367.0 ns/op 176 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 523192 2330 ns/op 4816 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 122904 11151 ns/op 36392 B/op 78 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 238899 5326 ns/op 4600 B/op 62 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 213715 5767 ns/op 2272 B/op 11 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 46567 26118 ns/op 8773 B/op 51 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 15430 75262 ns/op 171416 B/op 494 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 23326 49705 ns/op 68808 B/op 571 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 10000 123179 ns/op 44774 B/op 251 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 2264 538901 ns/op 152597 B/op 715 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=big-10 799 1538428 ns/op 4682072 B/op 8842 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 5 249447842 ns/op 341030953 B/op 2226117 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 2 868415104 ns/op 329189260 B/op 1993403 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 1 3949217375 ns/op 1230326816 B/op 4877230 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 1 17784455125 ns/op 38385133288 B/op 60748369 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 105658 11314 ns/op 7724 B/op 208 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 521919 2337 ns/op 544 B/op 20 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 540841 2240 ns/op 1536 B/op 36 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 69958 17167 ns/op 12592 B/op 177 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 67569 17878 ns/op 11221 B/op 310 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 69162 17254 ns/op 2608 B/op 96 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 128006 9378 ns/op 3664 B/op 95 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 10000 112053 ns/op 52418 B/op 1030 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 16177 74428 ns/op 46335 B/op 1179 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 3897 299794 ns/op 38088 B/op 1225 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 36422 32854 ns/op 10432 B/op 283 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=big-10 561 2155220 ns/op 846919 B/op 17894 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 18 65971963 ns/op 44990502 B/op 802 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 1 1302005041 ns/op 14008 B/op 72 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 8 128212328 ns/op 48727516 B/op 1374540 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodePtrSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 1 12199034416 ns/op 5480352464 B/op 96667450 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 747290 1678 ns/op 1392 B/op 22 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 2159914 558.1 ns/op 320 B/op 1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 321912 3843 ns/op 5072 B/op 9 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 73617 17534 ns/op 37584 B/op 129 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 197379 6180 ns/op 4600 B/op 62 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 116884 10030 ns/op 4416 B/op 21 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 25900 46562 ns/op 18709 B/op 72 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 9133 143216 ns/op 340952 B/op 877 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 18789 64469 ns/op 69400 B/op 571 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 6282 197420 ns/op 78944 B/op 451 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 1371 889912 ns/op 298069 B/op 1116 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=big-10 487 2359149 ns/op 6520168 B/op 13745 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 5 246363042 ns/op 341030620 B/op 2226116 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 2 869657292 ns/op 597634568 B/op 1993422 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 1 3874216916 ns/op 1230326832 B/op 4877230 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 1 16234461667 ns/op 38385152888 B/op 60749219 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=tiny-10 101436 11605 ns/op 7812 B/op 203 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=tiny-10 282842 4248 ns/op 1176 B/op 19 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=tiny-10 596376 2057 ns/op 1488 B/op 32 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=tiny-10 40621 29642 ns/op 18280 B/op 278 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=medium-10 66992 17821 ns/op 11973 B/op 300 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=medium-10 35984 33182 ns/op 9120 B/op 100 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=medium-10 172459 6964 ns/op 2872 B/op 66 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=medium-10 5738 208889 ns/op 95046 B/op 1791 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=big-10 15175 78775 ns/op 58495 B/op 1129 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=big-10 2388 497792 ns/op 141000 B/op 1379 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=big-10 62374 19358 ns/op 6200 B/op 152 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=big-10 349 3426646 ns/op 1381654 B/op 27396 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=GOB_struct_size=huge-10 5 209612733 ns/op 204711942 B/op 3565079 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=JSON_struct_size=huge-10 1 2101034833 ns/op 601242440 B/op 6008030 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=XML_struct_size=huge-10 1652984 722.0 ns/op 920 B/op 15 allocs/op
BenchmarkDecodeSlice/type=YAML_struct_size=huge-10 1 14744372417 ns/op 6093520992 B/op 121293601 allocs/op
PASS
ok github.com/RSheremeta/gob-serialization 285.131s