Twitter API SSL Benchmarks

twitter_ssl_bench.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'rbench'
require 'twitter'

class Bench
  def self.setup
    Twitter.configure do |config|
      config.consumer_key = CONSUMER_KEY
      config.consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET
      config.oauth_token = OAUTH_TOKEN
      config.oauth_token_secret = OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET
    end
  end

  def self.no_ssl
    Twitter.endpoint = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/'
    Twitter.friends
  end

  def self.ssl
    Twitter.endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/'
    Twitter.friends
  end
end

RBench.run(100) do
  column :one, :title => "HTTP"
  column :two, :title => "HTTPS"
  Bench.setup
  report "HTTP vs. HTTPS" do
    one { Bench.no_ssl }
    two { Bench.ssl }
  end
end

__END__
                          HTTP |   HTTPS |
------------------------------------------
HTTP vs. HTTPS         262.061 | 240.705 |