gistfile1.txt

require "rubygems"
require "redis"
require 'benchmark'

count = 1000000
r = Redis.new

Benchmark.bm(10) do |x|
  x.report("base") do
    count.to_i.times do |i|
      object = {
        :name   => "bob#{i}", 
        :email  => "bob#{i}@bob.com", 
        :street => "street#{i}", 
        :city   => "city#{i}",
        :zip    => "#{rand(i)}"
      }
      # r[i] = object
    end
  end
  x.report("write") do
    count.to_i.times do |i|
      object = {
        :name   => "bob#{i}", 
        :email  => "bob#{i}@bob.com", 
        :street => "street#{i}", 
        :city   => "city#{i}",
        :zip    => "#{rand(i)}"
      }
      r[i] = object
    end
  end
  x.report("read") do
    count.to_i.times do |i|
      r.get(i)
    end
  end  
end

#                 user     system      total        real
# base        7.170000   0.250000   7.420000 (  7.415859)
# write      65.050000  18.840000  83.890000 (129.949074)
# read       39.680000  16.690000  56.370000 (114.099024)