Daniel Hindrikes
Developer and architect with focus on mobile- and cloud solutions!
Autofac vs TinyIoC
I recently added a resolver that is powered by TinyIoC to TinyMvvm because I got a request to do so because they said that performance was better. I have used Autofac for many years and I have never had any problems with it. But I decided to replace Autofac with TinyIoC in one app that I am working with right now, just to try to measure the difference.
What I did is that I logged 4 runs of the initializing code of the app for each IoC provider. I used the iOS simulator in debug mode. Here is the result:
| Autofac (ms) | TinyIoC (ms) |
|---|---|
| 136 | 16 |
| 91 | 14 |
| 83 | 13 |
| 91 | 14 |
I was surprised that the difference was so big, we will probably have other numbers when running it in release mode, but I think that this test gives us a pretty good indication of what the performance is. I will definitely continue with TinyIoC in this app and I will also use it for new apps.