bertmark.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'bert'
require 'json'
require 'yajl'
require 'benchmark'

ITER = 1_000

tiny = t[:ok, :awesome]
small = t[:ok, :answers, [42] * 42]
large = ["abc" * 1000] * 100
complex = [42, {:foo => 'bac' * 100}, t[(1..100).to_a]] * 10

Benchmark.bm do |bench|
  bench.report("JSON tiny") {ITER.times {JSON.load(JSON.dump(tiny))}}
  bench.report("JSON small") {ITER.times {JSON.load(JSON.dump(small))}}
  bench.report("JSON large") {ITER.times {JSON.load(JSON.dump(large))}}
  bench.report("JSON complex") {ITER.times {JSON.load(JSON.dump(complex))}}
  bench.report("YAJL tiny") {ITER.times {Yajl::Parser.parse(Yajl::Encoder.encode(tiny))}}
  bench.report("YAJL small") {ITER.times {Yajl::Parser.parse(Yajl::Encoder.encode(small))}}
  bench.report("YAJL large") {ITER.times {Yajl::Parser.parse(Yajl::Encoder.encode(large))}}
  bench.report("YAJL complex") {ITER.times {Yajl::Parser.parse(Yajl::Encoder.encode(complex))}}
  bench.report("BERT tiny") {ITER.times {BERT.decode(BERT.encode(tiny))}}
  bench.report("BERT small") {ITER.times {BERT.decode(BERT.encode(small))}}
  bench.report("BERT large") {ITER.times {BERT.decode(BERT.encode(large))}}
  bench.report("BERT complex") {ITER.times {BERT.decode(BERT.encode(complex))}}
  bench.report("Ruby tiny") {ITER.times {Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(tiny))}}
  bench.report("Ruby small") {ITER.times {Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(small))}}
  bench.report("Ruby large") {ITER.times {Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(large))}}
  bench.report("Ruby complex") {ITER.times {Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(complex))}}
end

results.txt

              user      system    total       real
Ruby tiny     0.010000  0.000000  0.010000    (  0.006407)
YAJL tiny     0.000000  0.000000  0.000000    (  0.014308)
JSON tiny     0.010000  0.000000  0.010000    (  0.026258)
BERT tiny     0.040000  0.000000  0.040000    (  0.040453)

Ruby small    0.010000  0.000000  0.010000    (  0.011136)
YAJL small    0.040000  0.000000  0.040000    (  0.033982)
JSON small    0.060000  0.000000  0.060000    (  0.065894)
BERT small    0.430000  0.000000  0.430000    (  0.445005)

Ruby large    0.020000  0.000000  0.020000    (  0.024423)
BERT large    1.990000  0.040000  2.030000    (  2.074487)
YAJL large    2.820000  0.090000  2.910000    (  2.925373)
JSON large   11.430000  0.150000 11.580000    ( 11.907260)

Ruby complex  0.030000  0.010000  0.040000    (  0.030559)
YAJL complex  0.710000  0.020000  0.730000    (  0.738953)
JSON complex  1.070000  0.010000  1.080000    (  1.101532)
BERT complex  9.340000  0.050000  9.390000    (  9.489408)