sort_benchmark.rb

require 'benchmark'
require 'natural_sort'
require 'naturally'
require 'natcmp'
require './lib/sort_authority'
require './lib/sort_authority/ext/enumerable'
require './sensible_sort'

def randomish_string
 (0...20).map do 
   if rand(2) == 0
     (('a'..'z').to_a + [" ", "_"])[rand(28)]
   else
     rand(10)
   end
 end.join
end

ary = 100_000.times.map {|i| randomish_string }

Benchmark.bm do |bm|
  bm.report('sort           ') { ary.sort }
  bm.report('strnatcmp.c    ') { ary.natural_sort }
  bm.report('naturalsort gem') { NaturalSort::naturalsort(ary) }
  bm.report('naturally gem  ') { Naturally.sort(ary) }
  bm.report('natcmp gem     ') { ary.sort {|a,b| Natcmp.natcmp(a, b) } }
  bm.report('sensible_sort  ') { ary.sensible_sort }
end

# user             system     total      real
# sort             0.110000   0.000000   0.110000 (0.112114)
# strnatcmp.c      0.560000   0.000000   0.560000 (0.560879)
# naturalsort gem  161.590000 1.200000   162.790000 (162.883611)
# naturally gem    7.940000   0.020000   7.960000 (7.965125)
# natcmp gem       51.150000  0.190000   51.340000 (51.364688)
# sensible_sort    21.230000  0.160000   21.390000 (21.406591)