Simple patron vs em-http-client observation

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# Patron vs em-http-client
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# This is not science, it is the same test suite on the same laptop running Ruby 1.9.1 on Leopard 
# (ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i386-darwin9.8.0]).
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# Some insight into the matter might be found here: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-09/0075.html

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# Build the master of em-http-request
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$ git clone git://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request.git
$ cd em-http-request
$ gem build
$ gem install pkg/em-http-request-0.2.2.gem

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# Install patron
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$ gem install patron

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# Now clone rufus-jig from github
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$ git clone git://github.com/kennethkalmer/rufus-jig.git
$ git checkout em-http-request

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# Run the test server, open a new console
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$ ruby test/server.rb

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# Run the tests, alternating between Patron and em-http-request
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kenneth@Kenneth-Kalmers-MacBook-Pro ~/Code/FOSS/rufus-jig (em-http-request) $ ruby test/test.rb
Loaded suite test/test
Started
.................................
Finished in 16.125289 seconds.

33 tests, 110 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
kenneth@Kenneth-Kalmers-MacBook-Pro ~/Code/FOSS/rufus-jig (em-http-request) $ ruby test/test.rb -- --em
Loaded suite test/test
Started
.................................
Finished in 5.622955 seconds.

33 tests, 110 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors


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# DISCLAIMER
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# This is far from an exact science, but it is an interesting observation.
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