Performance benchmarks

In aoos: Another Object Orientation System

These performance tests are adapted from the R6 performance documentation. I was curious how the implementations in this package would compare to R6 since one of the main design goals of R6 was to solve some performance issues with the reference classes from the methods package.

Definitions

library("R6")
library("aoos")
library("rbenchmark")

R6 <- R6Class("R6",
              public = list(
                x = NULL,
                initialize = function(x = 1) self$x <- x,
                getx = function() self$x,
                inc = function(n = 1) self$x <- x + n
              )
)

RC <- setRefClass("RC", 
                  fields = list(x = "numeric"),
                  methods = list(
                    initialize = function(x = 1) .self$x <- x,
                    getx = function() x,
                    inc = function(n = 1) x <<- x + n
                  )
)

RList <- function(x = 1) {
  self <- environment()
  getx <- function() self$x
  inc <- function(n = 1) self$x <- self$x + n
  out <- list(x = x, getx = getx, inc = inc)
  class(out) <- "RList"
  out
}

RL <- function(x = 1) {
  getx <- function() .self$x
  inc <- function(n = 1) .self$x <- .self$x + n
  retList("RL", c("x", "getx", "inc"))
}

DC <- defineClass("DC", {
  getx <- function() .self$x
  inc <- function(n = 1) .self$x <- .self$x + n
  init <- function(x = 1) .self$x <- x
})

# And some more definitions for inheritance
R6Child <- R6Class("R6Child", inherit = R6)
RCChild <- setRefClass("RCChild", contains = "RC")
RLChild <- function(...) {
  retList("RLChild", super = RL(...))
}
DCChild <- defineClass("DCChild", contains = "DC", {})

Results

benchmark(
  DC(),
  RC$new(),
  R6$new(),
  RL(),
  RList()
)

benchmark(
  DCChild(),
  RCChild$new(),
  R6Child$new(),
  RLChild()
)

aoos documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:47 p.m.