From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T04:16:03+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri speed


On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:50 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> Well of course the second one takes longer. It parses the URI and  
> then does the same thing as the first. There's at least one more  
> method call involved with the second every time through the the loop.

Method call overhead doesn't account for 2 minutes when N was only  
set to 1000. At 100,000 times, URI parsing only takes a few seconds.

# parse curi.us ran in: 4.434573 seconds.
# parse http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/linkedlist.php ran in:  
8.940227 seconds.

timing('parse curi.us'){100_000.times do
   URI.parse("curi.us")
end}
timing('parse http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/linkedlist.php') 
{100_000.times do
   URI.parse("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/linkedlist.php")
end}

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