From: Paris Sinclair <paris@...>
Date: 2005-01-23T18:43:10+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Paris Sinclair wrote:

> somebody tell me I am just drunk.

Okay, I see one thing already, Marshal is a lot smarter than Storable.
Storable requires a reference, which is why I did \(rand), and then it has to 
create this unreadable trash. Whereas, Marshal is able to recognize something 
is simple, a String or Float or whatever. And is smart enough not to do so much 
work!!

So it make it more fair, I switched JUST each
 	rand
to
 	[rand,rand,rand]

And then I got Storable 16, Marshal 30.

Since normally these are used for data structures not just strings, I would 
say, Storable is slow, and Marshal is twice as slow.

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