test.rb

require 'active_record'
require 'benchmark/ips'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => 'sqlite3',
  :database => ':memory:')

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.create_table('posts') do |t|
  t.string :name
  t.timestamps
end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
end

post = Post.create(:name => 'aaron')
id   = post.id

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report("new")      { Post.new }
  x.report("new args") { Post.new(:name => 'aaron') }
  x.report("create")   { Post.create(:name => 'aaron') }
  x.report("find")     { Post.find(id) }
end

__END__
3-2-stable:

Calculating -------------------------------------
                 new      1597 i/100ms
            new args       755 i/100ms
              create        91 i/100ms
                find       193 i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
                 new    24843.5 (±8.8%) i/s -     124566 in   5.056542s
            new args     9188.9 (±9.5%) i/s -      45300 in   4.998662s
              create      932.8 (±7.3%) i/s -       4641 in   5.002245s
                find     2066.4 (±5.5%) i/s -      10422 in   5.058268s
master:

Calculating -------------------------------------
                 new      2104 i/100ms
            new args       871 i/100ms
              create        95 i/100ms
                find       213 i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
                 new    33856.6 (±7.9%) i/s -     168320 in   5.005236s
            new args    10681.3 (±7.3%) i/s -      53131 in   5.002680s
              create      970.3 (±7.0%) i/s -       4845 in   5.019001s
                find     2207.7 (±7.2%) i/s -      11076 in   5.042719s

AR, Y U SO SLOW ?

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'benchmark/ips'
require 'swift'
require 'swift/migrations'

Swift.setup(:default, Swift::DB::Sqlite3, db: ":memory:")

class Post < Swift::Scheme
  store :posts

  attribute :id,         Swift::Type::Integer, serial: true, key: true
  attribute :name,       Swift::Type::String
  attribute :created_at, Swift::Type::DateTime, default: proc { DateTime.now }
  attribute :updated_at, Swift::Type::DateTime, default: proc { DateTime.now }
end

Swift.migrate!

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report("new")       { Post.new }
  x.report("new args")  { Post.new(name: 'aaron') }
  x.report("create")    { Post.create(name: 'aaron') }
end

__END__
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2677M CPU @ 1.80GHz

Calculating -------------------------------------
                 new     14167 i/100ms
            new args      9770 i/100ms
              create      2014 i/100ms
-------------------------------------------------
                 new   173336.2 (±2.1%) i/s -     878354 in   5.069734s
            new args   116411.6 (±1.2%) i/s -     586200 in   5.036291s
              create    20918.9 (±0.5%) i/s -     104728 in   5.006505s

Perhaps because we're not comparing apples to apples. :-)

Looks great!

Thank you for the amazing work.

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