From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T23:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1

On Monday 17 March 2003 06:54 am, Brian Candler wrote:
> Although right now YAML is slow...

I've also started benchmarking Syck against the current YAML parser and things 
are getting speedy.  Here's loading a comparable XML document 100 times in 
REXML, Marshal, Syck, and YAML.rb:

      user     system      total        real
rexml:     0.437500   0.000000   0.437500 (  0.458832)
syck:      0.023438   0.000000   0.023438 (  0.030030)
marshal:   0.007812   0.000000   0.007812 (  0.008570)
yaml:      2.359375   0.000000   2.359375 (  2.388540)

Syck is averaging speeds 100x that of YAML.rb.

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