Savon vs. Handsoap: Benchmark

This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/!

p. As every benchmark is only as good as the platform it is performed on, you should execute them on your own machine. The example code provides a rake task for that. Running the benchmarks on a local development machine (MacBook 2.4GH Intel Core 2 Duo) produces the following results:

$ rake benchmark
                                    user     system      total        real
savon dynamic                   0.390000   0.070000   0.460000 ( 17.860459)
savon static                    0.120000   0.040000   0.160000 ( 11.929432)
handsoap                        0.100000   0.020000   0.120000 (  3.962274)
[...]

p. Since Handsoap uses native C libraries like “curb”:http://curb.rubyforge.org and “nokogiri”:http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/ the produced results are not that surprising. Savon on the other hand is based on pure Ruby with only a small set of dependencies.

p. Handsoap offers a way to change the underlying gems for HTTP connectivity and XML parsing. There are some more benchmarks for these configurations:

[...]
                                    user     system      total        real
handsoap curb nokogiri          0.100000   0.020000   0.120000 (  3.962274)
handsoap curb rexml             0.080000   0.040000   0.120000 (  3.905696)
handsoap curb libxml            0.060000   0.040000   0.100000 (  8.961743)
handsoap net_http nokogiri      0.130000   0.050000   0.180000 (  9.184230)
handsoap net_http rexml         0.100000   0.050000   0.150000 ( 11.429074)
handsoap net_http libxml        0.070000   0.050000   0.120000 (  9.220251)
handsoap httpclient nokogiri    0.310000   0.040000   0.350000 (  4.381711)
handsoap httpclient rexml       0.430000   0.070000   0.500000 (  4.782451)
handsoap httpclient libxml      0.350000   0.040000   0.390000 (  4.209751)