benchmark

# Ruby

[zuber@fish Projekty]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]

[zuber@fish Projekty]$ time ruby test.rb > /dev/null

real	0m33.294s
user	0m31.745s
sys	0m0.303s

# Python 

[zuber@fish Projekty]$ python -V
Python 2.5.1

[zuber@fish Projekty]$ time python test.py > /dev/null
real	0m4.995s
user	0m4.854s
sys	0m0.058s

# Python po zmianie modułu etree na napisany w C
# (from xml.etree import cElementTree as etree)

[zuber@fish Projekty]$ time python test.py > /dev/null

real	0m0.918s
user	0m0.671s
sys	0m0.045s

test.py

from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree

st = 5000
for i in range(100):
    for j in range(st):
        d = etree.Element('GoogleCustomizations')
        etree.SubElement(d, 'Annotations')
        d = r = None
    
    print i * st

test.rb

require 'rexml/document'
include REXML

st=5000

(0..100).each { |i|
(0..st).each { |j|
d = Document.new
r = d.add_element 'GoogleCustomizations'
r << Element.new('Annotations')
# d = '<GoogleCustomizations><Annotations></GoogleCustomizations>'
d,r=nil
}
puts i*st
}