From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T11:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Syck 0.25 + YAML.rb -- Objects in plain-text

Off the tested marshalling types, Pickle was the slowest.  If you check
out the link in Joel's email you'll see exact times.  (For an older,
slower version of Syck.)

So 30-35% of Ruby Marshal means that Syck took 3x as long to parse
comparable objects.  I am very pleased with this speed, considering that
Marshal is a binary format that doesn't have the ambiguities of YAML,
incident to its being a human-editable text format.

_why

Jim Freeze (jim@freeze.org) 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.
> > 
>