Ark
Benchmarks

Benchmarks

This chapter gives an overview of the runtime cost of typical Ark operations. All time information is per entity. All components used in the benchmarks have two int64 fields. Batch operations are performed in batches of 1000 entities.

Benchmark code: benchmark/table in the GitHub repository.

Benchmarks are run automatically in the GitHub CI, and are updated on this page on every merge into the main branch. They always reflect the latest development state of Ark.

For comparative benchmarks of different Go ECS implementations, see the go-ecs-benchmarks repository.


Last run: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:40:53 UTC
Version: Ark v0.4.7
CPU: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor

Query

Operation Time Remark
Query.Next 1.9 ns
Query.Next + Query.Get 1 3.1 ns
Query.Next + Query.Get 2 3.7 ns
Query.Next + Query.Get 5 4.1 ns
Query.Next + Query.Entity 3.1 ns
Query.Next + Query.Relation 3.7 ns
Filter1.Query + Query1.Close 29.3 ns
Filter1.Query + Query1.Close 31.3 ns registered filter

World access

Operation Time Remark
World.Alive 1.9 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.Get 3.7 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.GetUnchecked 3.3 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.Has 3.2 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.HasUnchecked 2.7 ns random, 1000 entities
Map5.Get 5 7.9 ns random, 1000 entities
Map5.HasAll 5 5.6 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.GetRelation 4.1 ns random, 1000 entities
Map.GetRelationUnchecked 3.6 ns random, 1000 entities

Entities

Operation Time Remark
Entity.IsZero 1.7 ns
World.NewEntity 14.0 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.NewEntityFn w/ 1 Comp 37.1 ns memory already alloc.
Map5.NewEntityFn w/ 5 Comps 58.4 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.NewEntity w/ 1 Comp 44.6 ns memory already alloc.
Map5.NewEntity w/ 5 Comps 70.8 ns memory already alloc.
World.RemoveEntity 14.7 ns
World.RemoveEntity w/ 1 Comp 21.6 ns
World.RemoveEntity w/ 5 Comps 44.6 ns

Entities, batched

Operation Time Remark
World.NewEntities 9.0 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map1.NewBatchFn w/ 1 Comp 9.4 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map5.NewBatchFn w/ 5 Comps 9.4 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
World.RemoveEntities 5.8 ns 1000
World.RemoveEntities w/ 1 Comp 6.2 ns 1000
World.RemoveEntities w/ 5 Comps 7.1 ns 1000

Components

Operation Time Remark
Map1.AddFn 1 Comp 45.0 ns memory already alloc.
Map5.AddFn 5 Comps 67.9 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.AddFn 1 to 5 Comps 109.3 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.Add 1 Comp 51.3 ns memory already alloc.
Map5.Add 5 Comps 77.6 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.Add 1 to 5 Comps 115.0 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.Remove 1 Comp 49.6 ns memory already alloc.
Map5.Remove 5 Comps 98.3 ns memory already alloc.
Map1.Remove 1 of 5 Comps 102.4 ns memory already alloc.
Exchange1.ExchangeFn 1 Comp 55.3 ns memory already alloc.
Exchange1.ExchangeFn 1 of 5 Comps 110.4 ns memory already alloc.
Exchange1.Exchange 1 Comp 62.6 ns memory already alloc.
Exchange1.Exchange 1 of 5 Comps 126.3 ns memory already alloc.

Components, batched

Operation Time Remark
Map1.AddBatchFn 1 Comp 4.3 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map5.AddBatchFn 5 Comps 4.2 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map1.AddBatchFn 1 to 5 Comps 7.8 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map1.RemoveBatch 1 Comp 4.6 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map5.RemoveBatch 5 Comps 6.7 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Map1.RemoveBatch 1 of 5 Comps 7.4 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Exchange1.ExchangeBatchFn 1 Comp 4.6 ns 1000, memory already alloc.
Exchange1.ExchangeBatchFn 1 of 5 Comps 7.2 ns 1000, memory already alloc.

Other

Operation Time Remark
ecs.NewWorld 11.3 μs
World.Reset 115.8 ns empty world
ecs.ComponentID 20.3 ns component already registered