Benchmarks

Tests

We used the IoCPerformance Benchmarks from Daniel Palme

The Crosser Dependency Resolver was (as already mentioned) written for the needs in the Crosser Framework. The Resolver does not have all features and functions in a full DI/IoC framework, and certainly DOES NOT try to compete with all DI/IoC containers out there. Instead we aimed at being the best/fastest when is comes to the features needed for our realtime streaming framework.

Result

Not all frameworks in the original test was included our benchmark.

Disclaimer

• We removed the slowest frameworks as well as the frameworks that broke during the test.
• DryIoC was removed since we got exceptions in that test. No efforts to fix DryIoC was done but according to the tests from Daniel Palme DryIoC is very fast!
• The tests was performed on .NET 4.5. The resolver supports dotnet core, but since the original tests was written for .NET 4.5 we used that for comparison.

Every interface is resolved 500.000 times during the benchmark and the time is measured in milliseconds. Each test is executed single threaded and multi threaded. Note that our multithreaded test was running 8 threads due to 8 logical processors on the test machine. The original test only ran 2 threads in the multithreaded tests.

Overview Fast Containers

Overview Slow Containers

Details for Singleton

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better)

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	40	22
Crosser	6	15
LightInject	34	18
fFastInjector	44	20
IfInjector	63	25
Func	102	38
Microsoft DI	136	259
Mef2	179	58
TinyIoC	350	345
Windsor	435	159
Unity	2630	707
Ninject	4055	2266

Details for Transient

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better)

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	49	34
Crosser	20	33
LightInject	38	32
fFastInjector	90	43
IfInjector	103	42
Func	151	46
Microsoft DI	99	42
Mef2	186	62
TinyIoC	1367	619
Windsor	1878	577
Unity	4207	1055
Ninject	13431	15402

Details for Combined

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better)

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	64	66
Crosser	76	46
LightInject	52	47
fFastInjector	193	69
IfInjector	127	59
Func	327	100
Microsoft DI	229	341
Mef2	256	87
TinyIoC	5966	2827
Windsor	5995	1715
Unity	10771	2819
Ninject	37867	21384

Details for Complex

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better)

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	78	42
Crosser	76	34
LightInject	71	36
fFastInjector	424	120
IfInjector	168	54
Func	899	254
Microsoft DI	623	1276
Mef2	424	130
TinyIoC	24243	11975
Windsor	16316	4866
Unity	32030	8063
Ninject	106870	69774

Details for Property

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better)

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	98	45
Crosser	129	53
LightInject	85	44
fFastInjector	-	-
IfInjector	271	82
Func	922	260
Microsoft DI	-	-
Mef2	941	302
TinyIoC	3784	3454
Windsor	30911	9412
Unity	32069	8144
Ninject	91990	70747

Details for Enumerable

Numbers in bold is the fastest (lower is better). Not that not all containers support Enumerable.

Container	SingleThread	MultiThread
No Container	160	58
Crosser	195	69
LightInject	233	82
fFastInjector	-	-
IfInjector	-	-
Func	-	-
Microsoft DI	542	198
Mef2	1053	325
TinyIoC	-	-
Windsor	14947	4421
Unity	44844	11524
Ninject	86720	46211

Hardware

The benchmark was executed on the following machine:

• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4850HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2301 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
• Memory: 15,9 GB