Pygments for Ruby (benchmark)

gistfile1.rb

require 'pygmentize'
require 'pygments.rb'

code = <<EOF
require 'sinatra'

get '/hi' do
  "Hello World!"
end
EOF

start = Time.now
100.times do
    Pygmentize.process(code, :ruby)
end
puts Time.now - start

start = Time.now
100.times do
    Pygments.highlight(code, :lexer => 'ruby')
end
puts Time.now - start

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marek@homer ~ (ruby-1.9.3-p0) ∙ → ruby pyg.rb 
21.000688
0.609097