I found the Ruby version of the following script is half as fast as the
Perl version.
Here’s a typical result on my computer:
$ time ./mech.pl ; time ./mech.rb
real 0m6.182s
user 0m0.284s
sys 0m0.030s
real 0m11.754s
user 0m0.566s
sys 0m0.068s
It’s just frustrating, especially when you’re trying to … eh, enhance
your online game score. But seriously, what the hell?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::Mechanize;
$agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->get(“http://www.google.com”);
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require ‘mechanize’
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.get(“http://www.google.com”)