From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T13:51:29+09:00
Subject: open-uri speed

I just discovered this. Lots of people already know, I'm sure, but  
maybe some don't.


# net/http ran in: 128.734298 seconds.
# open-uri ran in: 268.869359 seconds.

require "net/http"
require "open-uri"


def timing(name)
   start_time = Time.now
   yield
   end_time = Time.now
   puts "#{name} ran in: #{end_time - start_time} seconds."
end

n = 1_000

timing("net/http") {Net::HTTP.start("www.pythonchallenge.com") do |http|
   n.times do |i|
     r = http.get("/pc/def/linkedlist.php")
   end
end}

timing("open-uri") {n.times do |i|
   open("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/linkedlist.php") do |x|
     x.read
   end
end}




-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/