From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T09:46:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Syck 0.25 + YAML.rb -- Objects in plain-text

Jim Freeze wrote:
> 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?
> 

Acording to the benchmark page

   Syck Benchmarks: http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2003/03/19

Pickle is much slower than Syck, so I guess the % refers to throughput 
(objects per second or whatever).