From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-01-23T18:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

Hi,

In message "Re: looking at ruby..."
    on Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:43:10 +0900, Paris Sinclair <paris@perlpuma.net> writes:

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

On your machine.  I got

 # time perl -MStorable='freeze,thaw' -e '$start = time; for($i=0;$i<100;$i++) { for($j=0;$j<100;$j++) {  $foo[$i][$j] = ${thaw(freeze(\([rand,rand,rand])))} } }; print time - $start'
 1
 real    0m0.943s
 user    0m0.900s
 sys     0m0.005s

 # time ruby -e 'foo = []; start = Time.new ; (0...100).each { |i| foo[i] = [] ; (0...100).each { |j| foo[i][j] = Marshal.load(Marshal.dump([rand,rand,rand])) } } ; puts Time.new - start'
 0.371891

 real    0m0.379s
 user    0m0.334s
 sys     0m0.004s

on my Linux box (Pentium M 1.6MHz).

							matz.