Performance of api:cache compared to laravel's route:cache #64
Description
| Q | A |
|---|---|
| Bug? | no |
| New Feature? | no |
| Improvement? | yes |
| Framework | Laravel |
| Framework version | v10.48.25 |
| Package version | v4.4.0 |
| PHP version | 8.3.15 |
Actual Behaviour
Running dingo via the cached routes (i.e. php artisan api:cache results in slower execution of the route definitions.
Expected Behaviour
Compared to laravel's native route:cache command which can have up to a 5x performance increase in route parsing time, it appears that caching the routes in dingo degrades performance by around 5-10%, from my testing.
Steps to Reproduce
I followed the testing instructions outlined in this article: https://voltagead.com/laravel-route-caching-for-improved-performance/
Possible Solutions
I believe one of the reasons for this is that in the api:cache implementation it serializes/base64 encodes the result, which takes more resources to decode on every request, compared to native php found in the routes/api.php file.
One simple solution to improve performance is to remove the base64 encoding. This provides a minimal improvement.
Additionally using var_export() to serialise the route config as native php arrays and hydrating this when running the cached route file would give native laravel route cache-esk like performance.
I did investigate how to do this however app('api.router')->setAdapterRoutes() requires the routes to be hydrated with the existing /Illuminate/Route/Route class.
I'd be happy to investigate further and provide an MR if this is something you want to improve.
Edit: Just to add to this, laravel has Illuminate\Routing\CompiledRouteCollection which selectively hydrates the requested route from native php arrays, but im not sure if dingo is compatible with this class.