Files
go-telegram/test/benchmarks
lukaszraczylo 75c7ce3119 perf(client): pool req-body buffer + manual http.Request with cached URL
Two changes that together cut allocs/call from 15 to 13 (client-internal
bench) and per-call CPU from 600ns to 455ns (-24%) on the no-HTTP path:

1. Codec gets an optional BodyEncoder extension (MarshalTo io.Writer).
   When present, encodeJSONBody stream-encodes the request directly into
   a pooled *bytes.Buffer instead of allocating a [2-step] Marshal+Reader
   pair. DefaultCodec implements it via goccy/go-json.NewEncoder.
2. *Bot caches the parsed base URL on construction. buildRequest skips
   net/http.NewRequestWithContext for the common case and constructs
   *http.Request manually — clones the URL by value, sets the method
   path, and populates ContentLength + GetBody from the body's concrete
   type so RetryDoer's body-replay across attempts still works.

Cross-library bench (sendMessage round-trip vs httptest.Server): -2
allocs/call (104 -> 102), bytes -1.2%, time within noise (real HTTP
plumbing dominates). The CPU win is visible on synthetic stub-doer
benches and translates to lower GC pressure on sustained-throughput
workloads.

Slow-path fallback preserved for codecs that don't implement BodyEncoder
and for *Bot instances where url.Parse on the configured base failed —
they take the original NewRequestWithContext path.
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Cross-library benchmarks

Apples-to-apples micro-benchmarks comparing lukaszraczylo/go-telegram against the five most-starred Go Telegram libraries:

  • github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-api/v5
  • gopkg.in/telebot.v3 (tucnak)
  • github.com/go-telegram/bot
  • github.com/mymmrac/telego
  • github.com/NicoNex/echotron/v3

Lives in its own Go module so competitor dependencies don't leak into the main repo's go.mod.

Run

go test -count=10 -bench=. -benchmem | tee results/raw.txt
go install golang.org/x/perf/cmd/benchstat@latest    # one-time
benchstat results/raw.txt > results/benchstat.txt

Hot paths covered

File Path
webhook_bench_test.go Decode small text-message Update from JSON
unmarshal_bench_test.go Decode large Update (entities + reply markup + photo array)
call_bench_test.go sendMessage round-trip against httptest.Server
dispatch_bench_test.go Route an Update through 20 registered handlers (worst-case match)

Fixtures

shared/fixtures.go defines the JSON payloads and the mock HTTP server. Every library decodes the same bytes; every round-trip hits the same canned response.

Latest results

See ../../docs/benchmarks/2026-05-10-comparison.md for the rendered comparison.