Quickly benchmark how long gobbing and ungobbing takes

gobtime.go

package main

import (
        "encoding/gob"
        "fmt"
        "os"
        "time"
)

func main() {
        gobbed := make(map[string]string)

        for i := 0; i < 1000000; i++ {
                gobbed["123.123.123."+string(i)] = "2015-06-05 15:41:53,262:234567"
        }

        f1, _ := os.Create("ips.gob")

        //write to file test
        t := time.Now()
        encoder := gob.NewEncoder(f1)
        encoder.Encode(gobbed)
        result1 := time.Since(t)
        //write test complete

        f2, _ := os.Open("ips.gob")
        var ungobbed map[string]string

        //read from file test
        t = time.Now()
        decoder := gob.NewDecoder(f2)
        decoder.Decode(&ungobbed)
        result2 := time.Since(t)
        //read test complete

        fmt.Printf("time to READ: %f\n", result1.Seconds())
        fmt.Printf("time to WRITE: %f\n", result2.Seconds())
        f1.Close()
        f2.Close()
}