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Ernesto Tagwerker
April 26, 2017
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Micro Performance Improvements
A few changes that you can do to your code to make it have a faster performance
Ernesto Tagwerker
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Transcript
Micro Performance Improvements RailsConf, April 2017
Ernesto Tagwerker @etagwerker Founder & Software Developer at Ombu Labs
Best Practices 3
https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide
https://speakerdeck.com/sferik/writing-fast-ruby
Bad Code vs. Good Code 6
# Bad return true unless OBJECT.nil? # Good return true
if OBJECT
Benchmark.ips do |x| OBJECT = "nil".freeze x.report("unless nil") do true
unless OBJECT.nil? end x.report("if object") do true if OBJECT end x.compare! end
$ bundle exec ruby benchmarks/unless_nil_vs_if_object.rb Ruby version: 2.3.3 Warming up
-------------------------------------- unless nil 251.994k i/100ms if object 267.552k i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- unless nil 9.435M (± 6.9%) i/s - 47.123M in 5.021124s if object 11.431M (± 4.9%) i/s - 57.256M in 5.021363s Comparison: if object: 11431148.2 i/s unless nil: 9435226.8 i/s - 1.21x slower
# OK phone = Hash.new(number: number) phone[:number] # Better Phone
= Struct.new(:number) phone = Phone.new(number) phone.number
$ bundle exec ruby benchmarks/struct_vs_hash.rb Ruby version: 2.3.3 Warming up
-------------------------------------- struct 22.148k i/100ms hash 4.688k i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- struct 240.460k (± 2.7%) i/s - 1.218M in 5.069592s hash 47.926k (± 3.9%) i/s - 243.776k in 5.094413s Comparison: struct: 240459.9 i/s hash: 47926.1 i/s - 5.02x slower
# Bad HOUR_6 = Time.parse("2000-01-01 06:00:00 UTC") # Good HOUR_6
= Time.at(946685160).utc
$ bundle exec ruby benchmarks/time/parse_vs_at.rb Ruby version: 2.3.3 Warming up
-------------------------------------- Time.parse 3.287k i/100ms Time.at 66.086k i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- Time.parse 34.052k (± 3.2%) i/s - 170.924k in 5.024737s Time.at 842.576k (± 2.2%) i/s - 4.230M in 5.022207s Comparison: Time.at: 842576.2 i/s Time.parse: 34051.9 i/s - 24.74x slower
# Bad Post.select(:id).map(&:id) # Good Post.pluck(:id)
$ bundle exec rake benches:pluck_vs_map Ruby version: 2.3.3 Warming up
-------------------------------------- map(&:id) 11.000 i/100ms pluck(:id) 80.000 i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- map(&:id) 124.205 (±11.3%) i/s - 616.000 in 5.026999s pluck(:id) 807.127 (± 2.0%) i/s - 4.080k in 5.057062s Comparison: pluck(:id): 807.1 i/s map(&:id): 124.2 i/s - 6.50x slower
Resources 16
17 https://github.com/ombulabs/benches/ https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark.fyi
Thank you! @etagwerker 18