Means to speed up instantiation from large datasets?

[Offlein]

I use spatie/laravel-data wherever possible in our codebase. However, recently I was trying to shape the output of a large collection of data ("large" being ~28,000 records) in the form of an array of plain PHP objects generated from a SQL query.

If I simply loop over each and push PHP keyed arrays onto an empty array, the task is done in about 2.5 seconds.

If I use laravel-data, it takes at least 16-20 seconds. I've tried using MyDataClass::collection($mySqlResult); I've tried looping over and generating individual data models; I've tried using withoutMagicalCreationFrom(). But it always equates to about the same, slow result.

Is there any way to at least enforce the shape of the MyDataClass object in approximately the same time as writing the array directly? It only contains 7 properties (although I do have a mapInputName annotation on one of them).

[rubenvanassche]

Data has a lot of niceties, but that also creates a lot of overhead. We already have some performance tests in the package where we create huge collections. You're always welcome to send in a PR which speeds up the package but this is for us at the moment not the highest priority.

[Offlein]

Thanks Ruben! Maybe I will!