Twister is a fast and light-weight micro-framework.
Actually, a more precise definition of this code release would be;
Twister is a set of fast and light-weight components around which a framework can be written
> Twister is a set of fast and light-weight components around which a framework can be written
At the heart of the framework, sits a very flexible, simple and elegant Inversion-of-Control (IoC) Container.
In fact, there are NO global variables, NO define's, NO pipeline, NO Kernel and NO App; just the Container.
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@@ -19,20 +19,21 @@ Along with the Container, comes a very flexible and fast router (inside the Requ
So everytime you specify `{id}`, `{date}`, `{uuid}` etc. in the routes, the pre-configured patterns are used,
or you can specify custom patterns with `{id:[0-9]+}` or `{id:uuid}` where `uuid`=>`[A-F0-9-]+` etc.
Two design choices make the router fast:
1) Everything is configured/loaded from a `config` array (which is usually cached by APC/Xcode/PHP7)
2) The router splits the request uri by '/', doing an `isset` array lookup for the first path segment
3) The router only takes further action after the first segment (eg. /admin/, /login etc.) is resolved
* Everything is configured/loaded from a `config` array (which is usually cached by APC/Xcode/PHP7)
* The router splits the request uri by '/', doing an `isset` array lookup for the first path segment
* The router only takes further action after the first segment (eg. /admin/, /login etc.) is resolved
Although Twister is a fully functional and useable framework (based on my personal framework),
it's more a proof-of-concept for me to demonstrate my capabilities and design decisions.
Benchmarks:
## Benchmarks:
All tests were done with a skeleton `hello world` application on the same PC.
Laravel and Symfony were NOT configured to establish a database connection, while Twister WAS!
With a database connection, Symfony dropped to 9-12 requests per second, and Laravel 12-16 rps,
Twister was running about 50x-100x faster than Symfony and Laravel