gistfile1.txt

>> require 'rubygems'
=> false
>> require 'benchmark'
=> false
>> require 'yaml'
=> false
>> Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
?> x.report("yaml") { 100_000.times do ; ary = [1,2,3,4,5]; YAML.load(ary.to_yaml); end}
>> x.report("marshal") {100_000.times do ; ary = [1,2,3,4,5]; Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(ary)); end}
>> end
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------
yaml     13.810000   0.060000  13.870000 ( 14.514593)
marshal   0.570000   0.000000   0.570000 (  0.571853)
--------------------------------- total: 14.440000sec

              user     system      total        real
yaml     13.610000   0.020000  13.630000 ( 13.679500)
marshal   0.520000   0.010000   0.530000 (  0.589022)