gistfile1.rbx

require 'nokogiri'
require 'rubygems'
require 'benchmark'
require 'faster_builder/xml_markup'
    
n = 50_000 
Benchmark.bm(7) do |x|
  x.report("nokogiri: ") {
    n.times {
      Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new {
        root {
          hello(:type => "global") {
            text "World!"
          }
          100.times { |num|
            self.send(:"#{num}", num.to_s)
          }
        }
      }.to_xml
    }
  }

  x.report("faster builder: ") {
    n.times {
      builder = FasterBuilder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => 1)
      builder.instruct!
      builder.root {
        builder.hello("World!", "type" => "global")
        100.times { |num|
          builder.send(:"#{num}", num.to_s)
        }
      } 
      builder.target!
    }
  }
end
__END__
             user     system      total        real
nokogiri:  67.130000   0.380000  67.510000 ( 69.584561)
faster builder:  92.750000   0.530000  93.280000 ( 95.785319)