benchmark Pygments from Python

syntax_benchmark.py

# benchmark Pygments from Python
# http://github.com/ryanb/railscasts-episodes/blob/master/episode-207/syntax_benchmarks.rb

from pygments import highlight
from pygments.lexers import RubyLexer
from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter

import timeit

# run it once to initialize
highlight("print 'hello'", RubyLexer(), HtmlFormatter())

file = open('syntax_benchmarks.rb')
code = file.read()

t = timeit.Timer("highlight(code, RubyLexer(), HtmlFormatter())", "gc.enable(); from __main__ import highlight, code, RubyLexer, HtmlFormatter")
print "%.6f usec" % t.timeit(50)