Decorator or Subclassing?

Using anonymous functions in PHP is very nice to implement a decorator, but what about performance? Results:

• Subclassing is 40 percent faster than using a decorator
• Subclassing might require a bit more code

Here is the code:

class App {
  public static function route($pattern, $callback, $args) {
    // evaluate $pattern ...
    call_user_func_array($callback, $args);
  }
}

class AppJson extends App {
  public static function route($pattern, $callback, $args) {
    // evaluate $pattern ...
    $str = json_encode(call_user_func_array($callback, $args));
  }
}


$start = microtime(true);
for ($i=0; $i<10000; $i++) {
  AppJson::route('/json/range', 'range', [0,10]);
}
echo ' '.(microtime(true)-$start); // 0.1058s


$json = function ($func) {
  return function() use (&$func) {
    $str = json_encode(call_user_func_array($func, func_get_args()));
  };
};

$start = microtime(true);
for ($i=0; $i<10000; $i++) {
  App::route('/json/range', $json('range'), [0,10]);
}
echo ' '.(microtime(true)-$start); // 0.1763s