[BTW: The new documentation looks great Charlie!]

I've updated my simple ruby xml benchmark which measures the time to open a 98k XML document and count one type of leaf element (466 entries) 100 times.

  https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects/trunk/common/ruby/xml_benchmarks/

The summary is that for this one test using libxml in MRI and jdom_document_builder (a native Java library) in JRuby take just about the same time. This is similar to the last time I ran these benchmarks.

JRuby 1.1.5 has gotten much faster running pure Ruby code and now runs rexml about 30% faster than MRI. Hpricot is about 5 times slower than libxml and jdom_document_builder and runs slightly faster in JRuby.

Tests run on a MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.5.5, 4GB memory, 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

  hpricot 0.6.164
  libxml: 0.9.2

All benchmarks were run twice in sequence and the measurements presented here are from the second run. Java automatically optimizes JRuby code which is run many times and the speedup from the first to the second test is from 40 to 75%. There is no essential difference in the speed of the C version of Ruby between the first test and the second.

100 times: Open 98k XML document and count one type of leaf element (466 entries)

JRuby (Java 1.6.0_03-p3-Soylatte using server mode): jdom_document_builder 0.360 MRI: libxml v0.9.2 0.383 JRuby (Java 1.6.0_07): jdom_document_builder 0.401 JRuby (Java 1.5.0_16): jdom_document_builder 0.428 JRuby (Java 1.6.0_03-p3-Soylatte using server mode): hpricot 1.977 JRuby (Java 1.5.0_16): hpricot 2.027 JRuby (Java 1.6.0_07): hpricot 2.094 MRI: hpricot 2.140 JRuby (Java 1.6.0_03-p3-Soylatte using server mode): rexml 5.488 JRuby (Java 1.5.0_16): rexml 5.569 JRuby (Java 1.5.0_16): rexml 5.578 MRI: rexml 8.606

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