Testing different binary protocol implementations

gistfile1.rb

require 'json'
require 'bson'
require 'msgpack'
require 'benchmark'
#require 'ruby_protobuf'

test_hash = {'string' => 'test string', 'float' => 5}

json_results = Benchmark.measure do
  100_000.times do
    @test_one = test_hash.to_json
  end
end

puts "JSON: #{json_results}"
puts "JSON Length: #{@test_one.bytesize}"

bson_results = Benchmark.measure do
  100_000.times do
    @test_one = BSON.serialize(test_hash).to_s
  end
end

puts "BSON: #{bson_results}"
puts "BSON Length: #{@test_one.bytesize}"

msgpack_results = Benchmark.measure do
  100_000.times do
    @test_one = test_hash.to_msgpack
  end
end

puts "MessagePack: #{msgpack_results}"
puts "MessagePack Length: #{@test_one.bytesize}"

=begin

JSON:           1.000000   0.000000   1.000000 (  1.007621)
BSON:           0.590000   0.000000   0.590000 (  0.587634)
MessagePack:    0.160000   0.010000   0.170000 (  0.169203)

JSON Length: 34
BSON Length: 40
MessagePack Length: 27

=end