Hello there, how are you? Hope you are fine. I am a PHP programmer
trying to switch to Ruby(not for web development) because it seems easy
and what takes about 20 lines of code in PHP takes a lot fewer lines in
Ruby. However, the only thing I don’t like about Ruby is its syntax.
A few weeks ago I’ve coded a PHP script that will take as input a LFI
vulnerable url(File inclusion vulnerability - Wikipedia) and
will find web server logs in less than 10 seconds(that’s been the
average execution time).
This week I’ve started to learn Ruby and for practising I wanted to
“translate” my PHP script to Ruby. The script ran successfully in Ruby
but with one problem: the script that was executed in 10 seconds in PHP,
took around 150 seconds to execute successfully in Ruby. Here is the
script: #!/usr/bin/env rubyrequire 'net/http'require 'uri'start = Time.nowde - Pastebin.com
I would like some advice from you on how to optimise my script,
regarding the execution time and any other thing that looks weird for
you.
This week I’ve started to learn Ruby and for practising I wanted to
“translate” my PHP script to Ruby. The script ran successfully in Ruby
but with one problem: the script that was executed in 10 seconds in PHP,
took around 150 seconds to execute successfully in Ruby. Here is the
script: #!/usr/bin/env rubyrequire 'net/http'require 'uri'start = Time.nowde - Pastebin.com
It would be really helpful to me if you’d also post the PHP version.
Large files will necessarily take longer to download, all the rest were
a
little over 1K. Which puts the bottleneck on the code which gets the
page
(Net::HTTP.get) rather than the script overall.
However without the PHP version of the program to compare it against
there
is no way to measure how much slower Ruby is against PHP. Is PHP really
that much faster at downloading a web page?
But also look at the differences shown; the algorithms themselves
tossing
warnings and notices all over. Your ruby script, OTOH, was flawless.
I
did change a couple things in order to get the totals, but not the
fundamental algorithms.
My guess (totally untested) would be that curl/PHP is getting a gzipped
version of the page whilst Net::HTTP is not.
So, basically, curl is getting a lot less data than Net::HTTP is
getting. I haven’t delved into why this is so, but these are interesting
stats:
This is for the ruby version:
Total fetch time: 28 seconds.
Total fetch size: 1954452 bytes.
real 0m28.175s
user 0m0.224s
sys 0m0.020s
And this is for the PHP version:
Total fetch time: 18 seconds.
Total fetch bytes: 224888
real 0m18.077s
user 0m0.048s
sys 0m0.028s
Look at the difference in the amount of data transferred. Net::HTTP is
pulling in eight times as much data as curl is. Why is this the case?
That might be worth more investigation…
But also look at the differences shown; the algorithms themselves take
nearly no time, which is to be expected.
At any rate (haha, p.i.), you definitely can not make the case that ruby
is slower than php from this, as all the time is spent in transfer, not
execution.
P.S. “Mick”: I had to clean up your PHP script a bit as it was tossing
warnings and notices all over. Your ruby script, OTOH, was flawless. I
did change a couple things in order to get the totals, but not the
fundamental algorithms.
So, basically, curl is getting a lot less data than Net::HTTP is
getting. I haven’t delved into why this is so, but these are interesting
stats:
This is for the ruby version:
Total fetch time: 28 seconds.
Total fetch size: 1954452 bytes.
real 0m28.175s
user 0m0.224s
sys 0m0.020s
And this is for the PHP version:
Total fetch time: 18 seconds.
Total fetch bytes: 224888
real 0m18.077s
user 0m0.048s
sys 0m0.028s
Look at the difference in the amount of data transferred. Net::HTTP is
pulling in eight times as much data as curl is. Why is this the case?
That might be worth more investigation…
But also look at the differences shown; the algorithms themselves take
nearly no time, which is to be expected.
At any rate (haha, p.i.), you definitely can not make the case that ruby
is slower than php from this, as all the time is spent in transfer, not
execution.
P.S. “Mick”: I had to clean up your PHP script a bit as it was tossing
warnings and notices all over. Your ruby script, OTOH, was flawless. I
did change a couple things in order to get the totals, but not the
fundamental algorithms.
Thanks for your answer!
I think the PHP warnings are because I have disabled them, but think it
would be a good practice to turn them on again haha.
As you could have seen, in my PHP script, the cURL handle is not closed,
what improves a lot the request speed as I have tested. May be because
of this the Ruby script is slower.
So the “slowness” of the script is because of how connections are
handled I guess.
Nice to meet you here! I wanted to know,in your RubyTapas video
tutorial,what editor you used to explain the codes. That editor is
awesome. Could you please tell me the name?
I think the PHP warnings are because I have disabled them, but think it
would be a good practice to turn them on again haha.
As you could have seen, in my PHP script, the cURL handle is not closed,
what improves a lot the request speed as I have tested. May be because
of this the Ruby script is slower.
The curl handle is closed – it is a local variable (no globals
given). Plus, you are in fact reinitializing it every time at the top of
the two function calls.
//This functions returns body of $url
function getBody($url){
$ch = curl_init();
//This functions returns response size
function getResponseSize($url){
$ch = curl_init();
(These are from your pastbin entries.)
I’d be curious to see what you had when you thought you weren’t actually
re-initializing, but that’s way off topic for this group.
So the “slowness” of the script is because of how connections are
handled I guess.
I’m still going with compression vs. non-compressed.
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