From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T11:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] hpricot 0.7

_why wrote:
> Clearly, the benchmarks you see on Ruby Inside are skewed to favor
> Nokogiri. They parse XML through Hpricot without using Hpricot.XML(),
> which is not only wrong, but puts XML through needless HTML cleanup
> operations. I am sure that Hpricot 0.7 still fares slower on large
> documents. However, for instance, try testing a large amount of
> small documents (a much more common scenario) with this latest
> version.
> 
> You have to question a benchmark that is entirely based on two XML
> documents. What about HTML fix ups? What about various platforms
> and CPUs? Why not treat Hpricot fairly and use it properly in the
> benchmarks? It reeks of something.

Welcome to my personal hell.

- Charlie