Timing simple operations against personal account

gistfile1.txt

$ ruby simple_operation.rb
Creating /tmp/hello446: (data) (404ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello446: (data) (230ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (914ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (298ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (860ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (259ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (922ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello446/tmp.rb: (data) (234ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello446: (data) (250ms)
Took 4372ms

$ ruby simple_operation.rb
Creating /tmp/hello58: (data) (362ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello58: (data) (231ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (1255ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (257ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (856ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (240ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (799ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello58/tmp.rb: (data) (258ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello58: (data) (268ms)
Took 4526ms

$ ruby simple_operation.rb
Creating /tmp/hello727: (data) (398ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello727: (data) (299ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (1423ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (266ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (779ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (269ms)
Uploading /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (783ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello727/tmp.rb: (data) (264ms)
Fetching metadata for /tmp/hello727: (data) (220ms)
Took 4700ms