performance.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: iso-8859-1

#--
# Portions copyright 2004 by Jim Weirich (jim@weirichhouse.org).
# Portions copyright 2005 by Sam Ruby (rubys@intertwingly.net).
# All rights reserved.

# Permission is granted for use, copying, modification, distribution,
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# above copyright notice is included.
#++

require 'builder/xmlmarkup'
require 'benchmark'

text = "This is a test of the new xml markup. I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n\n" * 10000

include Benchmark          # we need the CAPTION and FMTSTR constants
include Builder
n = 50
Benchmark.benchmark do |bm|
  tf = bm.report("base")   {
    n.times do
      x = XmlMarkup.new
      x.text(text)
      x.target!
    end
  }
  def XmlMarkup._escape(text)
    text.to_xs
  end
  tf = bm.report("to_xs")   {
    n.times do
      x = XmlMarkup.new
      x.text(text)
      x.target!
    end
  }
end