Update: Aaron told me that he is going to be re-running the benchmarks this weekend so we’ll get a more complete set of data from the machine that originally ran the tests.
If you’re into parsing XML or HTML with ruby then chances are you’re familiar with the various gems out there for getting the job done. Lately, there have been a lot of things flying around about which is the fastest and to settle it, Aaron Patterson (author of Nokogiri and Mechanize) wrote a test suite.
After it’s release, RubyInside posted about how the tests showed how fast Nokogiri was compared to Hpricot in this article here: Ruby XML Performance Shootout: Nokogiri vs LibXML vs Hpricot vs REXML. Later in the day, I saw Why’s posting about the release of Hpricot here: hpricot 0.7 and decided to modify Aaron’s tests to use Hpricot.XML and here are the results:
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