Benchmark of tornado.speedup.utf8

u8bench.py

#micro benchmark
#CPython 3.4.1

import timeit
print(timeit.timeit("utf8('xyzzy')", "from tornado.escape import utf8"))

# $ TORNADO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench.py
# 0.0813535709748976
# $ TORNADO_NO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench.py
# 0.8695125280064531

u8bench2.py

import time
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.httpclient


class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

application = tornado.web.Application([ (r"/", MainHandler), ])
application.listen(8888)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

"""
$ TORNADO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench2.py
$ wrk -c1 -t1 -d10 http://127.0.0.1:8888/
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8888/
  1 threads and 1 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   463.95us   58.54us   1.35ms   93.96%
    Req/Sec     2.21k   194.95     2.44k    67.23%
  20832 requests in 10.00s, 4.17MB read
Requests/sec:   2084.02
Transfer/sec:    427.39KB

$ TORNADO_NO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench2.py
$ wrk -c1 -t1 -d10 http://127.0.0.1:8888/
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8888/
  1 threads and 1 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   490.17us   56.33us   1.37ms   95.31%
    Req/Sec     2.08k   149.38     2.22k    82.09%
  19672 requests in 10.00s, 3.94MB read
Requests/sec:   1967.20
Transfer/sec:    403.43KB

$ TORNADO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench2.py
$ wrk -c1 -t1 -d10 http://127.0.0.1:8888/
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8888/
  1 threads and 1 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   483.42us   75.88us   1.43ms   93.36%
    Req/Sec     2.11k   208.78     2.33k    57.64%
  20009 requests in 10.00s, 4.01MB read
Requests/sec:   2000.90
Transfer/sec:    410.34KB

$ TORNADO_NO_EXTENSION=1 python u8bench2.py
$ wrk -c1 -t1 -d10 http://127.0.0.1:8888/
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8888/
  1 threads and 1 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   487.80us   45.18us   0.88ms   93.23%
    Req/Sec     2.09k   156.29     2.44k    82.63%
  19823 requests in 10.00s, 3.97MB read
Requests/sec:   1982.29
Transfer/sec:    406.53KB
"""