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How did you make your time tests?

• sanj 18y ago
  It ain't pretty, but: require 'mechanize' class Tinyurl def self.make_tiny(big_url) url = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=#{big_url}" agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari' results = agent.get(url) return results.body end def self.test(base="http://www.google.com?q=sanjay", iterations = 10) t=Time.now (0..iterations).to_a.each do |i| puts make_tiny("#{base}#{i}:#{rand(100000000)}") end puts Time.now-t end end Tinyurl.test
  • mncaudill 18y ago
    I could be wrong as I'm not that familiar with Ruby, but I imagine to get more meaningful results (not saying that the results will be different), I would run the tests many more times than 10, as well as not printing to stdout inside of your testing loop.
    • sanj 18y ago
      100 iterations instead of 10, removed puts: TinyURL: 0.43s/req bit.ly: 0.22s/req is.gd: 0.05s/req That's close enough to my original values to not matter. It appears that the time is all spent waiting for the site to return.