Hi Martin and Mariano, thanks for asking. The answer depends on what you want to measure. Benchmarking software as complex as a serializer is tricky because, as you know, there are multiple functions to measure which are used independently in various real-world use-cases.
To gain a meaningful understanding of the performance, you need to bench the most-atomic level of operations a user of a serializer would use individually.
- Instantiatation / initialization of a MaObjectSerializer. - Serialization of object graphs of various sizes. - Materialization of said graphs. - Also, if doing comparisons to other serializers (which, I'm guessing you are) it is crucial to ensure each serializer is configured to serialize the same number of objects (i.e., the same depth, etc.) as the other serializers being compared to. - It's also important to discover whether any special configuration-options / preferences which affect the performance can be used.
So, given the one example object you've provided, here are some starter scripts which could be used for benching useful serialization operations with MaObjectSerializer.
"Initialization" [ MaObjectSerializer new ] bench.
"Serialization" | obj ser | obj := Array with: 1 with: 'string'. ser := MaObjectSerializer new. [ ser serializeGraph: obj ] bench
"Materialization" | obj ser ba | obj := Array with: 1 with: 'string'. ser := MaObjectSerializer new. ba := (ser serializeGraph: obj) byteArray. [ ser materializeGraph: ba ] bench
I have not researched any speed optimizations of MaObjectSerializer in many years, so I'm sure it will not be as fast as Fuel if it was designed for speed from the ground up. I need to profile and revisit performance aspects of MaObjectSerializer.
As I said, benching is tricky, and publishing comparisons even trickier, and so I do appreciate your asking for my input and hope whatever you publish to the world will be based on fair, responsible measuring. Toward that end, I support you and thank you for your work on Fuel.
Regards, Chris
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Martin Dias tinchodias@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I want to run some benchmarks with the Magma object serializer... Am I using it in the right way?
Thanks!! Martin
| serializer graphBuffer anObject classDefinitionsByteArray graphBufferByteArray loadedObject |
anObject := Array with: 1 with: 'string'.
serializer := MaObjectSerializer new. graphBuffer := serializer serializeGraph: anObject.
classDefinitionsByteArray := serializer classDefinitionsByteArray. graphBufferByteArray := graphBuffer byteArray.
"put these two bytearrays into a stream, and reload them..."
loadedObject := MaObjectSerializer new classDefinitionsByteArray: classDefinitionsByteArray; materializeGraph: graphBufferByteArray
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