endjin / iocperformance

Performance comparison of .NET IoC containers

Ioc Performance

Source code of my performance comparison of the most popular .NET IoC containers:
www.palmmedia.de/Blog/2011/8/30/ioc-container-benchmark-performance-comparison

Author: Daniel Palme
Blog: www.palmmedia.de
Twitter: @danielpalme

Results

Explantions

First value: Time of single-threaded execution in [ms]
Second value: Time of multi-threaded execution in [ms]
*: Benchmark was stopped after 3 minutes and result is extrapolated.
OoM: Benchmark was stopped after an OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Error: Benchmark was stopped after an Exception was thrown.

Basic Features

Container	Singleton	Transient	Combined	Complex
No	108 78	126 116	147 168	222 206
Autofac 3.5.2	893 723	2568 2571	6407 4071	18191 11244
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2	538 353	670 405	1867 1085	7969 4632
Catel 4.4.0	326 371	5088 5360	13304 14009	30210 32487
DryIoc 2.1.0	32 48	53 61	85 77	113 100
DryIocZero 2.0.1	80 72	78 71	87 83	198 147
Dynamo 3.0.2.0	105 80	134 103	234 162	823 493
fFastInjector 1.0.1	75 68	134 112	280 204	680 428
Funq 1.0.0.0	149 111	181 132	451 338	1327 852
Grace 2.4.2	188 127	303 294	907 926	2061 1291
Griffin 1.1.2	374 231	377 243	971 573	2813 1548
HaveBox 2.0.0	91 76	110 95	122 87	222 194
IfInjector 0.8.1	108 86	144 115	180 142	233 166
LightCore 1.5.1	203 171	3364 1998	34315 34496	193101* 205435*
LightInject 4.0.2	59 51	59 67	80 80	436 294
LinFu 2.3.0.41559	4163 2443	24399 16041	64412 41898	170694 104578
Maestro 1.5.4	333 259	397 306	1115 728	3512 2556
Mef 4.0.0.0	34967 19746	53521 31946	87598 65396	175864 169289
Mef2 1.0.30.0	252 179	263 187	328 250	559 481
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0	566 303	818 543	2901 1802	8322 8170
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta8	193 256	148 124	317 292	908 993
Mugen 3.5.1	459 359	810 582	2380 1666	9042 6674
Munq 3.1.6	111 79	283 192	751 454	2389 1482
Ninject 3.2.2.0	7259 4486	24276 15296	69214 39610	191033* 117563
Petite 0.3.2	6626 4071	5546 3373	6971 4657	8246 6118
SimpleInjector 3.1.2	70 71	91 87	112 105	162 127
Spring.NET 2.0.1	997 752	13890 9012	39235 33605	119975 82439
StructureMap 4.0.1.318	1362 1108	1481 993	4111 2966	10179 6587
StyleMVVM 3.1.5	656 454	543 383	833 527	2170 2363
TinyIoC 1.3	454 468	2123 1548	8825 6132	35707 26670
Unity 4.0.1	2846 1872	4571 2754	11527 7661	35292 23766
Windsor 3.3.0	519 383	2626 3658	8893 4861	26098 16700

Advanced Features

Container	Property	Generics	IEnumerable	Conditional	Child Container	Interception With Proxy
No	348 176	107 106	275 177	214 180	1899 524	88 106
Autofac 3.5.2	32706 20892	5158 3346	17288 12199		108964 86101	51505 37712
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2	10427 6064		7758 4514
Catel 4.4.0		12718 13475				5002 5392
DryIoc 2.1.0	121 105	88 88	338 241	89 78		987 653
DryIocZero 2.0.1	223 164		361 259	80 73
Dynamo 3.0.2.0	855 519
fFastInjector 1.0.1
Funq 1.0.0.0	1299 789
Grace 2.4.2	2828 1589	707 467	2601 1645	805 536	17498 10605	8723 5580
Griffin 1.1.2
HaveBox 2.0.0	1119 697		2252 1373			868 538
IfInjector 0.8.1	385 269	170 131
LightCore 1.5.1	2487 1843	23120 15653	52456 31250
LightInject 4.0.2	1024 682	76 79	354 248	608 401		1545 997
LinFu 2.3.0.41559
Maestro 1.5.4	3866 2367	783 534	3901 2707	1070 693		8955 5331
Mef 4.0.0.0	180329* 178984	198621* 151746	137126 140873
Mef2 1.0.30.0	1388 1099	347 241	1759 1379
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta8		217 169	817 552
Mugen 3.5.1	11883 7521	71914 76734	6944 7444	2060 1369	706941* OoM	5051527* Error
Munq 3.1.6	1899 1169
Ninject 3.2.2.0	165177 106569	67347 42019	151450 96672	53576 31926	45724250* 37677615*	36162 22413
Petite 0.3.2	6297 3789
SimpleInjector 3.1.2	229 179	105 96	887 574	106 89		7324 4790
Spring.NET 2.0.1	91587 63045					72303 69545
StructureMap 4.0.1.318	11749 8869	4424 3278	9464 6072		4830447* 3255723*	20939 6987
StyleMVVM 3.1.5	2391 1093	1407 881	3703 4850	1598 965
TinyIoC 1.3	5062 4660				15411 9844
Unity 4.0.1	42874 29680		72235 50134		60679 38214	157119 110328
Windsor 3.3.0	52083 32659	27157 17004	26641 13537		340330* Error	21772 13042

Prepare

Container	Prepare And Register	Prepare And Register And Simple Resolve
No	4	4
Autofac 3.5.2	487	643
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2	63	70
Catel 4.4.0	17067	17340
DryIoc 2.1.0	76	590
DryIocZero 2.0.1	0	1
Dynamo 3.0.2.0	19090	18509
fFastInjector 1.0.1	9324	8177
Funq 1.0.0.0	12	Error
Grace 2.4.2	122304	123571
Griffin 1.1.2	12609	12089
HaveBox 2.0.0	81766	83181
IfInjector 0.8.1	2101	2795
LightCore 1.5.1	233	247
LightInject 4.0.2	174	851
LinFu 2.3.0.41559	140	538
Maestro 1.5.4	232	952
Mef 4.0.0.0	23	3054
Mef2 1.0.30.0	7330	11858
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0	18	23
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta8	31	40
Mugen 3.5.1	559	2378
Munq 3.1.6	12084	12117
Ninject 3.2.2.0	115051	157982
Petite 0.3.2	25	49
SimpleInjector 3.1.2	515	1636
Spring.NET 2.0.1	40443	34294
StructureMap 4.0.1.318	4188	10939
StyleMVVM 3.1.5	91820	85792
TinyIoC 1.3	185	224
Unity 4.0.1	957	3174
Windsor 3.3.0	4141	4463

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