From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T09:41:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Syck 0.25 + YAML.rb -- Objects in plain-text

On Thursday,  8 May 2003 at  8:25:28 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:
> ..my faithful friends..
> 
>   Syck runs at about:
> 
>   30-35% of the speed of Ruby's Marshal.
>   35-90% of the speed of PHP's deserialize().
>   600% of the speed of Python's Pickle.
>   33-40% of the speed of Python's cPickle.
> 

Which is faster, 30% or 600%?
That is to say, is 30% of Ruby's Marshal mean
that it runs in 3/10's the time as Marshal
or that it is 30% slower than Marshal?

-- 
Jim Freeze
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