From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-08T01:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP, DRb and direct method call (was Re: XmlConfigFile usage)

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:20:13AM +0900, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> And more:
>   Marshal: binary string/stream <-> Ruby's object
>   SOAP4R:  XML string/stream <-> SOAP Data Model <-> Ruby's object
> 
> So SOAP4R will never be as fast as Marshal, even if I'll rewrite it in C.

Sure, although I guess you could go straight from Ruby object to XML
string/stream for some common cases like String and Fixnum.

> I wrote a server with webrick, which supports HTTP/1.1
> persistent connection to reduce TCP sockets.

Ah, that's a nice optimisation, and I hadn't realised that DRb had this
unfair advantage.

> $ ruby18 drbclient.rb
>   0.110000   0.140000   0.250000 (  0.752000)
> $ ruby18 soapclient-xmlscan.rb
>  14.130000   0.822000  14.952000 ( 25.227000)
> $ ruby18 soapclient-rexml.rb (with soapserver-rexml.rb)
>  12.018000   0.821000  12.839000 ( 23.880000)
> 
> 30 times slower.  Hmm.  I should get profile.

Have you done any comparison with xmlparser (the expat-derived one)? I've
not installed it yet.

Regards,

Brian.