From: Jim <narf968@...>
Date: 2005-12-05T04:27:33+09:00
Subject: WWW::Mechanize speed

I found the Ruby version of the following script is half as fast as the
Perl version.

Here's a typical result on my computer:

$ time ./mech.pl ; time ./mech.rb

real    0m6.182s
user    0m0.284s
sys     0m0.030s

real    0m11.754s
user    0m0.566s
sys     0m0.068s

It's just frustrating, especially when you're trying to ... eh, enhance
your online game score. But seriously, what the hell?


#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;

$agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->get("http://www.google.com");



#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'mechanize'

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://www.google.com")