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

Container	Singleton	Transient	Combined	Complex
No	81	88	97	106
Autofac 3.3.0 (http://code.google.com/p/autofac)	1022	723	1717	5169
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2 (http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com)	435	409	1132	4488
Catel 3.8.1 (http://www.catelproject.com)	787	7488	18610	48585
DryIoc 1.1.1 (https://bitbucket.org/dadhi/dryioc)	46	54	72	92
Dynamo 3.0.2.0 (http://www.dynamoioc.com)	98	105	164	444
fFastInjector 0.8.1 (http://ffastinjector.codeplex.com)	86	113	140	216
Funq 1.0.0.0 (http://funq.codeplex.com)	127	131	289	952
Grace 2.0.0 (http://grace.codeplex.com)	352	300	552	1438
Griffin 1.1.0 (https://github.com/jgauffin/griffin.container)	207	262	552	1475
HaveBox 1.6.1 (https://bitbucket.org/Have/havebox)	102	99	113	158
Hiro 1.0.3 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/Hiro)	130	123	183	191
IfInjector 0.8.1 (https://github.com/iamahern/IfInjector)	109	127	135	176
LightCore 1.5.1 (http://www.lightcore.ch)	451	2871	19797	102595
LightInject 3.0.1.2 (https://github.com/seesharper/LightInject)	115	97	117	141
LinFu 2.3.0.41559 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/LinFu)	6384	28237	70343	189899
Maestro 1.3.1 (https://github.com/JonasSamuelsson/Maestro)	532	456	1249	3542
Mef 4.0.0.0 (http://mef.codeplex.com)	36949	40471	67467	131693
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0 (http://microsliver.codeplex.com)	335	956	3057	8282
Mugen 3.5.1 (http://mugeninjection.codeplex.com)	808	877	2169	7957
Munq 3.1.6 (http://munq.codeplex.com)	92	127	411	1355
Ninject 3.0.1.10 (http://ninject.org)	8997	18530	50983	138221
Petite 0.3.2 (https://github.com/andlju/Petite)	5715	5375	5651	7121
SimpleInjector 2.4.1 (http://simpleinjector.codeplex.com)	86	92	104	132
Spring.NET 1.3.2 (http://www.springframework.net/)	1936	16471	40787	104762
StructureMap 2.6.4.1 (http://structuremap.net/structuremap)	2178	2009	5984	15834
StyleMVVM 3.1.4 (http://stylemvvm.codeplex.com)	463	436	619	1274
TinyIoC 1.2 (https://github.com/grumpydev/TinyIoC)	601	2723	9101	34886
Unity 3.0.1304.1 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity)	2915	4009	11660	33348
Windsor 3.2.1 (http://castleproject.org)	931	2700	8108	20969

Advanced Features

Container	Property	Generics	IEnumerable	Conditional	Child Container	Interception
No	118	89	193	157
Autofac 3.3.0 (http://code.google.com/p/autofac)	5229	4161	5501
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2 (http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com)	5810		5222
Catel 3.8.1 (http://www.catelproject.com)
DryIoc 1.1.1 (https://bitbucket.org/dadhi/dryioc)	97	75	313	112
Dynamo 3.0.2.0 (http://www.dynamoioc.com)	584
fFastInjector 0.8.1 (http://ffastinjector.codeplex.com)
Funq 1.0.0.0 (http://funq.codeplex.com)	962
Grace 2.0.0 (http://grace.codeplex.com)	1475	820	2171	1262
Griffin 1.1.0 (https://github.com/jgauffin/griffin.container)
HaveBox 1.6.1 (https://bitbucket.org/Have/havebox)	888		481
Hiro 1.0.3 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/Hiro)	1880
IfInjector 0.8.1 (https://github.com/iamahern/IfInjector)	295	125
LightCore 1.5.1 (http://www.lightcore.ch)	2111	12611	30342
LightInject 3.0.1.2 (https://github.com/seesharper/LightInject)	146	110	148	175
LinFu 2.3.0.41559 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/LinFu)
Maestro 1.3.1 (https://github.com/JonasSamuelsson/Maestro)	6238	878	6153	2250
Mef 4.0.0.0 (http://mef.codeplex.com)	139083	156400	103587
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0 (http://microsliver.codeplex.com)
Mugen 3.5.1 (http://mugeninjection.codeplex.com)	9774	7483	6901	3562
Munq 3.1.6 (http://munq.codeplex.com)	1160
Ninject 3.0.1.10 (http://ninject.org)	131647	57254	113691	79990
Petite 0.3.2 (https://github.com/andlju/Petite)	9532
SimpleInjector 2.4.1 (http://simpleinjector.codeplex.com)	181	93	628	339
Spring.NET 1.3.2 (http://www.springframework.net/)	96779
StructureMap 2.6.4.1 (http://structuremap.net/structuremap)	19103	4577	19800
StyleMVVM 3.1.4 (http://stylemvvm.codeplex.com)	1316	1042	2604	1992
TinyIoC 1.2 (https://github.com/grumpydev/TinyIoC)	4309	12615
Unity 3.0.1304.1 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity)	34445		54482
Windsor 3.2.1 (http://castleproject.org)	42784	7387	22505

Additional Advanced Features

Container	Child Container	Interception
No
Autofac 3.3.0 (http://code.google.com/p/autofac)	63200	26544
Caliburn.Micro 1.5.2 (http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com)
Catel 3.8.1 (http://www.catelproject.com)
DryIoc 1.1.1 (https://bitbucket.org/dadhi/dryioc)
Dynamo 3.0.2.0 (http://www.dynamoioc.com)
fFastInjector 0.8.1 (http://ffastinjector.codeplex.com)
Funq 1.0.0.0 (http://funq.codeplex.com)
Grace 2.0.0 (http://grace.codeplex.com)	7600	6026
Griffin 1.1.0 (https://github.com/jgauffin/griffin.container)
HaveBox 1.6.1 (https://bitbucket.org/Have/havebox)		577
Hiro 1.0.3 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/Hiro)
IfInjector 0.8.1 (https://github.com/iamahern/IfInjector)
LightCore 1.5.1 (http://www.lightcore.ch)
LightInject 3.0.1.2 (https://github.com/seesharper/LightInject)		1060
LinFu 2.3.0.41559 (https://github.com/philiplaureano/LinFu)
Maestro 1.3.1 (https://github.com/JonasSamuelsson/Maestro)	2189000	7305
Mef 4.0.0.0 (http://mef.codeplex.com)
MicroSliver 2.1.6.0 (http://microsliver.codeplex.com)
Mugen 3.5.1 (http://mugeninjection.codeplex.com)	425500	21569
Munq 3.1.6 (http://munq.codeplex.com)
Ninject 3.0.1.10 (http://ninject.org)	23995200	26303
Petite 0.3.2 (https://github.com/andlju/Petite)
SimpleInjector 2.4.1 (http://simpleinjector.codeplex.com)		6266
Spring.NET 1.3.2 (http://www.springframework.net/)		61985
StructureMap 2.6.4.1 (http://structuremap.net/structuremap)	416600	11168
StyleMVVM 3.1.4 (http://stylemvvm.codeplex.com)
TinyIoC 1.2 (https://github.com/grumpydev/TinyIoC)	10900
Unity 3.0.1304.1 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity)	26700	110279
Windsor 3.2.1 (http://castleproject.org)	126100	18511