PSimple performance comparision for Yell with the standard Ruby logger

gistfile1.txt

require 'rubygems'
require 'benchmark'

require 'logger'
require 'yell'

count = 50000
Dir[ '*.log' ].each { |f| File.unlink f }

yell    = Yell.new 'yell.log'
logger  = Logger.new 'logger.log'

# warmup for jruby
if defined?(RUBY_ENGINE) && RUBY_ENGINE == 'jruby'
  STDERR.puts "warming up..."

  1000.times { logger.info :info }
  1000.times { yell.info :info }
end

# Running Benchmark
Benchmark.bm(10) do |b|
  b.report( 'logger' )  { count.times { logger.info :info } }
  b.report( 'yell' )    { count.times { yell.info :info } }
end

Kernel.at_exit do
  lines = `wc -l *.log`

  puts "\n#{lines}"
end