ActiveRecord inspired ORM

[eluser]m4rw3r[/eluser]
Ok, I'm terribly sorry, I made an error when I was testing my ORM. I thought I had both models set to has_many (in thread) and belongs_to (in post), but instead I had a has_and_belongs_to_many in the post model :red: .
So that's not really a fair competition, a belongs_to relationship vs a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship (one more query and a little more PHP).

So I remade the test:
The same code as last time (except the change of the post model):

Code:

ORM        5.0832
CI AR      4.8359

Result: My code is about only 5.11 % slower!! :-) (A great increase in performance, really shows the difference between has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many)

While I was at it, I made a test of memory consumption:
The same code, but commented the one I wasn't testing, then I copied the value from the profiler.

Code:

ORM      2,612,520 bytes
CI AR    2,223,888 bytes

Result: My ORM uses about 17.47 % more memory (400 kb more, I think that can be lowered by using more references, but some of that memory are for the compiled classes, I believe)

BTW, This model works like a factory, where all child classes have a reference to the object who created them, by using that pattern I only have one model for many records and not much in the actual ORM_records (a few methods, the row data, uid and related objects (when they are loaded)).

So, now I have to work on the behaviours (suggestions, ideas, etc. are welcome).