From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-12-05T04:36:41+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize speed

It is most likely the HTML parsing that is slowing things down. Does
the Perl version always parse the HTML, or only on demand?

Either way, REXML is not known to be the fastest thing in the world.

Ryan

On 12/4/05, Jim <narf968@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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")