From: Brian Candler Date: 2003-03-07T23:11:24+09:00 Subject: Re: SOAP, DRb and direct method call (was Re: XmlConfigFile usage) On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:58:34PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > So I stand by my original "250 times faster", allowing for some experimental > error :-) Actually, I posted timings done under FreeBSD. On the Sun, where I was originally testing: $ ruby justmarshal.rb Ruby: 0.169696 SOAP: 48.753113 Ruby is 287.2967719 times faster $ ruby justmarshal.rb Ruby: 0.168854 SOAP: 47.111901 Ruby is 279.0096829 times faster $ ruby justmarshal.rb Ruby: 0.167228 SOAP: 47.74334 Ruby is 285.4984811 times faster Regards, Brian.