Benchmark looping through response hashes for _content keys.

flickrie_benchmark.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'benchmark'

user = JSON.parse(<<EOS)
{ "person": { "id": "19198543@N06", "nsid": "19198543@N06", "ispro": 1, "iconserver": "3280", "iconfarm": 4, "path_alias": "hopskipandjump", "gender": "M", "ignored": 0, "contact": 0, "friend": 0, "family": 0, "revcontact": 0, "revfriend": 0, "revfamily": 0, 
    "username": { "_content": "hopskipandjump" }, 
    "location": { "_content": "" }, 
    "timezone": { "label": "Central Time (US & Canada)", "offset": "-06:00" }, 
    "description": { "_content": "Family" }, 
    "photosurl": { "_content": "http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopskipandjump\/" }, 
    "profileurl": { "_content": "http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/hopskipandjump\/" }, 
    "mobileurl": { "_content": "http:\/\/m.flickr.com\/photostream.gne?id=19153221" }, 
    "photos": { 
      "firstdatetaken": { "_content": "2007-12-21 18:39:20" }, 
      "firstdate": { "_content": "1221326610" }, 
      "count": { "_content": "12544" } } }, "stat": "ok" }
EOS

photo = JSON.parse(<<EOS)
{ "photo": { "id": "7524818098", "secret": "2715e61b6a", "server": "8008", "farm": 9, "dateuploaded": "1341719882", "isfavorite": 0, "license": 0, "safety_level": 0, "rotation": 0, "originalsecret": "d2e3d43c0b", "originalformat": "jpg", 
    "owner": { "nsid": "52946269@N00", "username": "mrpunkin", "realname": "Bryan", "location": "Vancouver, WA, USA", "iconserver": 38, "iconfarm": 1 }, 
    "title": { "_content": "St. Helens" }, 
    "description": { "_content": "" }, 
    "visibility": { "ispublic": 0, "isfriend": 1, "isfamily": 1 }, 
    "dates": { "posted": "1341719882", "taken": "2012-07-07 20:58:02", "takengranularity": 0, "lastupdate": "1341719886" }, 
    "permissions": { "permcomment": 1, "permaddmeta": 1 }, "views": 0, 
    "editability": { "cancomment": 1, "canaddmeta": 1 }, 
    "publiceditability": { "cancomment": 0, "canaddmeta": 0 }, 
    "usage": { "candownload": 1, "canblog": 1, "canprint": 1, "canshare": 1 }, 
    "comments": { "_content": 0 }, 
    "notes": { 
      "note": [
        
      ] }, 
    "people": { "haspeople": 0 }, 
    "tags": { 
      "tag": [
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-60504812", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "instagram app", "_content": "instagramapp", "machine_tag": 0 },
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-1628", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "square", "_content": "square", "machine_tag": 0 },
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-14976", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "square format", "_content": "squareformat", "machine_tag": 0 },
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-34115330", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "iphoneography", "_content": "iphoneography", "machine_tag": 0 },
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-60643605", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "uploaded:by=instagram", "_content": "uploaded:by=instagram", "machine_tag": 1 },
        { "id": "1027074-7524818098-348109", "author": "52946269@N00", "raw": "Amaro", "_content": "amaro", "machine_tag": 0 }
      ] }, 
    "urls": { 
      "url": [
        { "type": "photopage", "_content": "http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrpunkin\/7524818098\/" }
      ] }, "media": "photo" }, "stat": "ok" }
EOS

## Current flickr.people.getInfo
def get_user_info(data)
  %w[username realname location description profileurl mobileurl photosurl].each do |attribute|
    data['person'][attribute] = data['person'][attribute]['_content'] rescue next
  end
end

## Current flickr.photos.getInfo
def get_photo_info(data)
  data['photo']['title'] = data['photo']['title']['_content']
  data['photo']['description'] = data['photo']['description']['_content']
  data['photo']['comments_count'] = data['photo'].delete('comments')['_content']
  data['photo']['dates']['uploaded'] = data['photo'].delete('dateuploaded')
  data['photo']['tags'] = data['photo']['tags']['tag']
end

## New cleanup_content method
def cleanup_content(data)
  data.inject({}) do |h,(k,v)|
    h[k] = v.is_a?(Hash) ? (v['_content'] || cleanup_content(v)) : v; h
  end
end

Benchmark.bm(20) do |x|
  x.report("Current user:"){ get_user_info(user) }
  x.report("New user:"){ cleanup_content(user) }
  x.report("Current photo:"){ get_photo_info(photo) }
  x.report("New photo:"){ cleanup_content(photo) }
end

responses.txt

                           user     system      total        real
Current user:          0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000063)
New user:              0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000037)
Current photo:         0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000015)
New photo:             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000063)

                           user     system      total        real
Current user:          0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000059)
New user:              0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000048)
Current photo:         0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000014)
New photo:             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000063)

                           user     system      total        real
Current user:          0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000059)
New user:              0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000038)
Current photo:         0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000015)
New photo:             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000057)

                           user     system      total        real
Current user:          0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000066)
New user:              0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000038)
Current photo:         0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000022)
New photo:             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000063)

                           user     system      total        real
Current user:          0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000070)
New user:              0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000044)
Current photo:         0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000014)
New photo:             0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000063)