Rails: February 2009 Archives

I've been meaning to write and run this benchmark for a while to see how things fare in the view world these days. Initially I did markaby vs tagz (my favorite at a svelte 244 lines). I then added builder out of curiosity's sake. Thanks to atmos I was able to get code and numbers for erubis and haml.

Builder is slightly faster than tagz, but not enough for me to want to switch to it. Tagz and markaby read so much better than builder, but markaby is so much slower (4.73 times slower than builder) that I can't justify its use.

Now if only I could get tagz working correctly with sinatra. :(

# iterations = 10000
#
#               user     system      total        real   multiplier
#
# builder   1.910000   0.000000   1.910000 (  1.918751) (1.00)
# tagz      2.310000   0.020000   2.330000 (  2.357710) (1.23)
# haml      5.370000   0.020000   5.390000 (  5.418876) (2.82)
# erubis    5.390000   0.020000   5.410000 (  5.446929) (2.84)
# markaby   8.980000   0.030000   9.010000 (  9.078748) (4.73)

Code behind the cut...

8 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes, and 52 seconds after I sent out my enigmatic post, Mr. Black (me, duh), Mr. White (Eric Hodel), Mr. Pink (Aaron Patterson, duh), and Mr. Blonde (John "Which one was Michael Madsen?" Barnette) all received offer letters from AT&T Interactive to work on one of their new ideas (totally green field! I don't think any of us have seen an empty repository in years and years!).

I'm amazed. I'm in awe. I had no idea that such a thing was possible, let alone so incredibly effortless. Thank you Ruby community for making such a thing possible and thank you ATTi for making such a bold move.