From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T15:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: YARV speed test: XML processing

Quoting daniels@pronto.com.au, on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:59:38AM +0900:
> > I have a small (200 lines) program that processes XML files and 
> > creates ruby object trees. It uses the native Ruby xml library REXML 
> > a great deal.
> > 
> > On my MacOS X 2GHz macintel system using the latest YARV speed up my 
> > code by a factor of 2.
> > 
> > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.6.1]
> > 53 seconds
> > 
> > ruby 2.0.0 (Base: Ruby 1.9.0 2006-04-08) [i686-darwin8.6.1]
> > YARVCore 0.4.0 Rev: 502 (2006-05-18) [opts: ]
> > 28 seconds
> 
> I've never looked at yarv's internals, but I'm guessing that it creates
> ruby objects directly as it processes the stream.

I think that you are mistaking yarv for an XML parser. Its not. Its a
virtual machine for ruby code. Do a quick google.

The benchmarks are on the same code, same rexml, same xml processing
technique, same numbers of objects created.

Cheers,
Sam