Carl Mercier's blog

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Category: Ruby

YAML, ZAML, Marshal & JSON benchmark in Ruby

At Defensio, we recently needed to find out how slow YAML was compared to Marshal. We also wanted to know how much faster ZAML, an alternative to YAML, is. I ran a few benchmarks under 1.8.7 MRI, 1.8.7 REE, 1.9.2 and Rubinius to see how they compare. I also benchmarked to_json to have an order [...]

Changes at IsItJRuby.com

I’ve been ridiculously busy lately. Way too busy. Too busy to sleep, to hit the gym, and definitely maintain yet another website. Unfortunately, IsItJRuby.com didn’t get the love it deserved so I started hunting for someone to take my place. Alex Coles (@myabc) volunteered and is now the new maintainer. He already shared with me [...]