PhpBench

PhpBench is a benchmarking framework for PHP.

Features:

• Nice command line interface.
• Generate reports and render them to different mediums (Console, HTML, Markdown, etc).
• Benchmarks executed in a separate process, no effective overhead, no autoloader pollution.
• Control stability of results with multiple iterations and retry threshold.
• Memory usage statistics.
• Records environment (e.g. VCS info, OS info, etc.)
• Standard deviation and Z-Scores.
• Kernel density estimate used to estimate the mode.
• Time unit specification.
• Output mode specification (throughput, average time).
• Parameterized benchmarking cases.
• Per-project configuration.
• Store and reference results.
• Before and After method / class specification.
• Pause (recover) between iterations.
• Assertions.
• Extendable.
• More..

Installation Instructions

You can install PHPBench either as as a PHAR or as a project dependency.

Installing as a PHAR allows you to easily self-update to the latest. bleeding edge, version.

See the installation instructions for information on both methods of installation.

Documentation

See the official documentation.

Community

• Follow @phpbench for the latest news.
• Join the #phpbench channel on the Slack Symfony Devs channel.

Screenshots

Default output:

Aggregate report with "dots" logger:

Blinken logger:

HTML report:

Storage log:

See also

This library was influenced by the athletic benchmarking framework.