diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ebe8724..5f013b6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,67 @@ # twister -A fast and elegant PHP micro-framework +Twister is a fast and light-weight micro-framework. + +Actually, a more precise definition of this code would be; + `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. +The Container controls the entire flow of code (except routing), with a custom `execute()` function (written by you); + which is actually just an anonymous callback function inside the Container, called from the Front Controller (index.php); + even the name of that function can be changed in the config file. + ie. There is NO pre-programmed flow of the program or hard-coded Kernel/App. + Most things are handled/registered with the IoC Container, objects are pre-configured and `lazy-loaded` on request/use only! + +Along with the Container, comes a very flexible and fast router (inside the Request class). + I consider this router to be THE fastest router I've tested, with the same functionality. + It includes the ability to filter by method (GET/POST), and optional parameters like `/user/{id}[/{name}]` + Another somewhat unique capability is the ability to pre-define the patterns associated with named parameters eg. `id`->`\d+` + So everytime you specify {id}, {date} etc. in any route, the same patterns are re-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 + +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: + +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 + +ab -t 30 http://laravel/ + +Complete requests: 198 +Requests per second: 6.59 [#/sec] (mean) +Time per request: 151.765 [ms] (mean) + +memory_get_usage(): 6,621,416 +memory_get_usage(true): 2,097,152 +memory_get_peak_usage(): 6,691,272 +memory_get_peak_usage(true): 2,097,152 + +ab -t 30 http://symfony/ + +Complete requests: 95 +Requests per second: 3.15 [#/sec] (mean) +Time per request: 317.717 [ms] (mean) + +memory_get_usage(): 10,887,352 +memory_get_usage(true): 4,194,304 +memory_get_peak_usage(): 11,168,984 +memory_get_peak_usage(true): 4,194,304 + +ab -t 30 http://twister/ + +Complete requests: 911 +Requests per second: 30.35 [#/sec] (mean) +Time per request: 32.952 [ms] (mean) + +memory_get_usage(): 858,848 +memory_get_usage(true): 2,097,152 +memory_get_peak_usage(): 1,049,528 +memory_get_peak_usage(true): 2,097,152