A comparison of the go plugin package and other plugin implementations for golang. The reason for this is to evaluate plugin options for Beubo which is a CMS written in go. As shown in a previous benchmark there is basically no difference in performance of using go plugins to running a function directly in code.
The following packages have been benchmarked.
Several of the other packages use RPC or similar methods instead of the go plugin package which gets around issues such as, but not limited to, not being compatible with Windows and package paths and GOPATH needing to be the same between apps and plugins.
With the addition of Yaegi, I am also benchmarking interpreters.
Do you know any other plugin packages? Please open an issue or pull request.
Found an issue with a benchmark? Please open an issue or pull request.
Most plugins tested are using RPC which adds about 30 - 50 microseconds to plugin calls (or 0.03 - 0.05 milliseconds) over the golang plugin package.
| Name | Operations | ns/op |
|---|---|---|
| go plugin package | 87296470 | 13.50 ns/op |
| hashicorp/go-plugin | 26695 | 44913 ns/op |
| natefinch/pie | 32142 | 37148 ns/op |
| dullgiulio/pingo over tcp | 21369 | 56459 ns/op |
| dullgiulio/pingo over unix | 30313 | 38929 ns/op |
| elliotmr/plug | 100197 | 12196 ns/op |
| traefik/yaegi | 1447602 | 898.2 ns/op |
Last run on January 15th, 2022 with Go version 1.17.6. Benchmark performed on a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) with a 2,9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9 processor and 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 ram.
% bash ./run.sh
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/uberswe/go-plugin-benchmark
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
BenchmarkPluginRandInt/golang-plugin-12 87296470 13.50 ns/op
BenchmarkHashicorpGoPluginRandInt/hashicorp-go-plugin-12 26695 44913 ns/op
BenchmarkPieRandInt/pie-12 32142 37148 ns/op
BenchmarkPingoTcpRandInt/pingo-tcp-12 21369 56459 ns/op
BenchmarkPingoTcpRandInt/pingo-unix-12 30313 38929 ns/op
BenchmarkPlugRandInt/plug-12 100197 12196 ns/op
BenchmarkYaegiRandInt/yaegi-12 1447602 898.2 ns/op
PASS
ok github.com/uberswe/go-plugin-benchmark 12.279s
If you have a plugin or interpreter written in go which you would like to benchmark feel free to open an issue.
Would you like to add more benchmarks? Please feel free to fork this repository and open a pull request with the updated changes. Please make sure to add any needed code and also update the Readme. Your code belongs to you but it must fall under the same LICENSE as this repository to be included.