Benchmark Pusher Usage of Ruby HMAC vs OpenSSL

gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'benchmark'
require 'hmac-sha2'
require 'openssl'

REPEAT  = 10_000
KEY     = 'secretkey'
DATA    = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.'
DIGEST  = OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('sha256')

Benchmark.bmbm do |results|
  
  results.report('ruby-hmac') do
    REPEAT.times do
      HMAC::SHA256.hexdigest KEY, DATA
    end
  end
  
  results.report('openssl/hmac') do
    REPEAT.times do
      OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest DIGEST, KEY, DATA
    end
  end
  
end

Said results.

                   user     system      total        real
ruby-hmac      0.830000   0.000000   0.830000 (  0.841734)
openssl/hmac   0.110000   0.000000   0.110000 (  0.105816)