golang benchmark: String and Int conversions

atoi_test.go

package bench

import (
	"strconv"
	"testing"
)

var smallStr = "35"
var bigStr = "999999999999999"

func BenchmarkAtoi(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val, _ := strconv.Atoi(smallStr)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkAtoiParseInt(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val, _ := strconv.ParseInt(smallStr, 0, 64)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkAtoiBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val, _ := strconv.Atoi(bigStr)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkAtoiParseIntBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val, _ := strconv.ParseInt(bigStr, 0, 64)
		_ = val
	}
}

itoa_test.go

package bench

import (
	"fmt"
	"strconv"
	"testing"
)

var smallInt = 35
var bigInt = 999999999999999

func BenchmarkItoa(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := strconv.Itoa(smallInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaFormatInt(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := strconv.FormatInt(int64(smallInt), 10)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaSprint(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := fmt.Sprint(smallInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaSprintf(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := fmt.Sprintf("%d", smallInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := strconv.Itoa(bigInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaFormatIntBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := strconv.FormatInt(int64(bigInt), 10)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaSprintBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := fmt.Sprint(bigInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

func BenchmarkItoaSprintfBig(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		val := fmt.Sprintf("%d", bigInt)
		_ = val
	}
}

result.md

$ go test -bench . -benchmem

testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS

BenchmarkAtoi                           50000000           28.6 ns/op         0 B/op           0 allocs/op
BenchmarkAtoiParseInt                   50000000           27.0 ns/op         0 B/op           0 allocs/op
BenchmarkAtoiBig                        20000000           57.2 ns/op         0 B/op           0 allocs/op
BenchmarkAtoiParseIntBig                30000000           54.6 ns/op         0 B/op           0 allocs/op

BenchmarkItoa                           30000000           52.6 ns/op         2 B/op           1 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaFormatInt                  30000000           52.5 ns/op         2 B/op           1 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaSprint                     5000000            254 ns/op          16 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaSprintf                    5000000            299 ns/op          16 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaBig                        10000000           140 ns/op          16 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaFormatIntBig               10000000           118 ns/op          16 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaSprintBig                  5000000            326 ns/op          24 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkItoaSprintfBig                 5000000            363 ns/op          24 B/op          2 allocs/op

ok  	github.com/evalphobia/bench/	26.708s