excon benchmark vs google

excon benchmark

$ ruby benchmarks/excon_vs_google.rb 
  
  [em-http-request, HTTParty, Net::HTTP, Net::HTTP (persistent), open-uri, RestClient, StreamlyFFI (persistent), Typhoeus, Excon, Excon (persistent)]

  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | tach                     | total     |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | Excon                    | 7.614298  |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | Typhoeus                 | 7.723362  |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | StreamlyFFI (persistent) | 7.778743  |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | Excon (persistent)       | 8.178862  |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | open-uri                 | 17.996636 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | RestClient               | 18.041814 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | Net::HTTP                | 18.256657 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | Net::HTTP (persistent)   | 18.293269 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | em-http-request          | 18.554890 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+
  | HTTParty                 | 18.624778 |
  +--------------------------+-----------+

excon_vs_google.rb

require 'rubygems' if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
require 'bundler'

Bundler.require(:default)
Bundler.require(:benchmark)

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib', 'excon')

require 'em-http-request'
require 'httparty'
require 'net/http'
require 'open-uri'
require 'rest_client'
require 'tach'
require 'typhoeus'

url = "http://www.google.com"

Tach.meter(100) do

  tach('em-http-request') do
    EventMachine.run {
      http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(url).get

      http.callback {
        http.response
        EventMachine.stop
      }
    }
  end

  tach('HTTParty') do
    HTTParty.get(url).body
  end

  tach('Net::HTTP') do
    # Net::HTTP.get('localhost', '/data/1000', 9292)
    Net::HTTP.start('www.google.com', 80) {|http| http.get('/').body }
  end

  Net::HTTP.start('www.google.com', 80) do |http|
    tach('Net::HTTP (persistent)') do
      http.get('/').body
    end
  end

  tach('open-uri') do
    open(url).read
  end

  tach('RestClient') do
    RestClient.get(url)
  end

  streamly = StreamlyFFI::Connection.new
  tach('StreamlyFFI (persistent)') do
    streamly.get(url)
  end

  tach('Typhoeus') do
    Typhoeus::Request.get(url).body
  end

  tach('Excon') do
    Excon.get(url).body
  end

  excon = Excon.new(url)
  tach('Excon (persistent)') do
    excon.request(:method => 'get').body
  end

end

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