From: John Wells <lists@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T22:00:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] hpricot 0.7

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> _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.

Ironic that Peter just posted a positive note about new JRuby benchmarks ;-)

http://rubyflow.com/items/1913