Requests latency test v2.26 vs v.25.1

$requests-latency-test-v2.26-vs-v.2.25.1.md

Run httpbin locally

docker pull kennethreitz/httpbin
docker run -d -p 8888:80 kennethreitz/httpbin

Clone this gist

git clone https://gist.github.com/02b1a823b478ad74a8440b86f95e13a6.git requests-latency-test
cd requests-latency-test

Run tests without environments variables

docker build . --build-arg REQUESTS_VERSION=2.26 --build-arg ENV_COUNT=0 -t test && docker run --network "host" test

docker build . --build-arg REQUESTS_VERSION=2.25.1 --build-arg ENV_COUNT=0 -t test && docker run --network "host" test

Run tests with 500 environments variables

docker build . --build-arg REQUESTS_VERSION=2.26 --build-arg ENV_COUNT=500 -t test && docker run --network "host" test

docker build . --build-arg REQUESTS_VERSION=2.25.1 --build-arg ENV_COUNT=500 -t test && docker run --network "host" test

.gitattributes

*.sh text eol=lf

Dockerfile

FROM python

ARG REQUESTS_VERSION

RUN pip install requests==${REQUESTS_VERSION}

ARG ENV_COUNT
ENV ENV_COUNT ${ENV_COUNT}

WORKDIR /

COPY . .

ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "/run.sh"]

requests-2.25.1-env-count-0-result.png

requests-2.25.1-env-count-500-result.png

requests-2.26-env-count-0-result.png

requests-2.26-env-count-500-result.png

run.sh

# Current requests
echo "Requests version: " $(pip freeze | grep requests==)

echo "Env count: " ${ENV_COUNT}

python /test.py

test.py

import requests
import timeit
import os

ENV_COUNT = int(os.environ['ENV_COUNT'])

# Set env
print(f"Seting environment variables... {ENV_COUNT}")
for i in range(ENV_COUNT):
    os.environ[f"ENV_{i}"] = str(i)


print("Creating requests session...")
sess = requests.session()

def bench():
    # httpbin locally
    # docker pull kennethreitz/httpbin
    # docker run -p 8888:80 kennethreitz/httpbin
    r = sess.get("http://localhost:8888/json", verify=False)
    r.content

print("Starting test...")
result = timeit.timeit(bench, number=10000)

print(f"Done, toke {result} seconds")