[Boost].SML vs Boost.MSM-eUML vs Boost.Statechart

Features

Overview

Library [Boost].SML Boost.MSM-eUML Boost.Statechart
Standard C++14 C++98/03 C++98/03
Version 1.0.1 1.61 1.61
License Boost 1.0 Boost 1.0 Boost 1.0
Linkage header only header only header only

Details

Library [Boost].SML Boost.MSM-eUML Boost.Statechart
UML 2.0 2.0 1.5
RTTI - - ✓
Exceptions - - ✓
Memory Allocations - - ✓

UML features

Library [Boost].SML Boost.MSM-eUML Boost.Statechart
Transition ✓ ✓ ✓
Anonymous transition ✓ ✓ ✓
Internal transition ✓ ✓ ✓
Local transitions - - -
State entry/exit ✓ ✓ ✓
Guard ✓ ✓ ✓
Action ✓ ✓ ✓
Event defering ~ ✓ ✓
Error handling ✓ ✓ ✓
Initial state ✓ ✓ ✓
Terminate State ✓ ✓ ✓
Explicit entry ✓ ✓ ✓
Explicit exit - ✓ ✓
Fork - ✓ -
Orthogonal regions ✓ ✓ ✓
Sub / Composite ✓ ✓ ✓
Shallow History ✓ ✓ ✓
Deep History ~ ~ ✓

Non-UML features

Library [Boost].SML Boost.MSM-eUML Boost.Statechart
Any event - ✓ -
Flags - ✓ -
Interrupt state - ✓ -
State Visitor ✓ ✓ ✓
Serialization - ✓ -
Dispatcher ✓ - -
Asynchronous SM - - ✓

Benchmarks

Test CXXFLAGS Events States Transitions Process Events
Simple Test -O2 -s, /Ox 6 5 12 1'000'000
Clang-3.7 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.144s 3.855s 8.699s 1.028s
Execution time 15ms 17ms 17ms 1232ms
Memory usage 1b 32b 28b 200b
Executable size 11K 91K 15K + boost_system 59K
GCC-5.2 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.175s 7.879s 17.101s 1.790s
Execution time 15ms 19ms 21ms 929ms
Memory usage 1b 32b 28b 224b
Executable size 11K 67K 15K + boost_system 63K
MSVC-2015 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.450s
Execution time 27ms
Memory usage 16b
Executable size 206K
Test CXXFLAGS Events States Transitions Process Events
Composite Test -O2 -s, /Ox 8 5 + 3 12 + 4 1'000 * 1'000
Clang-3.7 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.184s 4.526s 10.599s 1.293s
Execution time 10ms 14ms 10ms 491ms
Memory usage 2b 60b 52b 200b
Executable size 15K 111K 15K + boost_system 83K
GCC-5.2 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.248s 9.363s 23.404s 2.037s
Execution time 9ms 13ms 12ms 404ms
Memory usage 2b 60b 52b 224b
Executable size 12K 91K 15K + boost_system 83K
MSVC-2015 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.599s
Execution time 21ms
Memory usage 23b
Executable size 224K
Test CXXFLAGS Events States Transitions Process Events
Complex Test -O2 -s, /Ox 50 50 50 1'000'000
Clang-3.7 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.582s 1m15.935s 43.341s 3.661s
Execution time 69ms 81ms 78ms 6221ms
Memory usage 1b 120b 72b 200b
Executable size 35K 611K 31K + boost_system 343K
GCC-5.2 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.816s 52.238s 1m41.045s 4.997s
Execution time 72ms 77ms 91ms 5520ms
Memory usage 1b 120b 72b 224b
Executable size 35K 271K 47K + boost_system 215K
MSVC-2015 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 1.891s
Execution time 166ms
Memory usage 104b
Executable size 224K

| Test | | ---- | |Header Test |

Clang-3.7 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.060s 2.072s 2.504s 0.552s
GCC-5.2 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.073s 3.197s 3.986s 0.704s
MSVC-2015 [Boost].SML [Boost.MSM-eUML] [Boost.MSM3-eUML2] [Boost.Statechart]
Compilation time 0.182s
  • To run benchmarks
cd benchmark && make # make benchmark_simple benchmark_composite benchmark_complex