[QUIZ] IP to Country (#139) - RUBY

Ruby Quiz wrote:
> [...]
>
> $ time ruby ip_to_country.rb 68.97.89.187
> US
>
> real 0m0.314s
> user 0m0.259s
> sys 0m0.053s

Is an 'initialisation run' allowed to massage the data?
(we should at least split the benchmarks to keep it fair)

Is it motivating or a spoiler to post timings?

cheers

Simon

On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Simon Kr=F6ger wrote:

> Ruby Quiz wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> $ time ruby ip_to_country.rb 68.97.89.187
>> US
>> =09
>> real 0m0.314s
>> user 0m0.259s
>> sys 0m0.053s
>
> Is an 'initialisation run' allowed to massage the data?
> (we should at least split the benchmarks to keep it fair)

My script does need and initialization run, yes. I don't see any =20
harm in paying a one time penalty to set things up right.

> Is it motivating or a spoiler to post timings?

Motivating, definitely.

James Edward Gray II=

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Simon Kröger wrote:
>
>> Ruby Quiz wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> $ time ruby ip_to_country.rb 68.97.89.187
>>> US
>>>
>>> real 0m0.314s
>>> user 0m0.259s
>>> sys 0m0.053s
>>
>> Is an 'initialisation run' allowed to massage the data?
>> (we should at least split the benchmarks to keep it fair)
>
> My script does need and initialization run, yes. I don't see any harm
> in paying a one time penalty to set things up right.
>
>> Is it motivating or a spoiler to post timings?
>
> Motivating, definitely.
>
> James Edward Gray II

Ok, my script does not need any initialization, it uses the file
IpToCountry.csv exactly as downloaded.

----------------------------------------------------------------
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-cygwin]

$ time ruby quiz139.rb 68.97.89.187
US

real 0m0.047s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m0.030s

$ time ruby quiz139.rb 84.191.4.10
DE

real 0m0.046s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.015s
----------------------------------------------------------------

This is on a Pentium M 2.13GHz Laptop with 2GB RAM and rather slow HD.

cheers

Simon

On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Simon Kr=F6ger wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Simon Kr=F6ger wrote:
>>
>>> Ruby Quiz wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> $ time ruby ip_to_country.rb 68.97.89.187
>>>> US
>>>>
>>>> real 0m0.314s
>>>> user 0m0.259s
>>>> sys 0m0.053s
>>>
>>> Is an 'initialisation run' allowed to massage the data?
>>> (we should at least split the benchmarks to keep it fair)
>>
>> My script does need and initialization run, yes. I don't see any =20
>> harm
>> in paying a one time penalty to set things up right.
>>
>>> Is it motivating or a spoiler to post timings?
>>
>> Motivating, definitely.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Ok, my script does not need any initialization, it uses the file
> IpToCountry.csv exactly as downloaded.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-cygwin]
>
> $ time ruby quiz139.rb 68.97.89.187
> US
>
> real 0m0.047s
> user 0m0.030s
> sys 0m0.030s
>
> $ time ruby quiz139.rb 84.191.4.10
> DE
>
> real 0m0.046s
> user 0m0.046s
> sys 0m0.015s
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Wow, I'm impressed. Can't wait to see that code!

James Edward Gray II=

> Wow, I'm impressed. Can't wait to see that code!

Thanks.

Because startup time startet to take over the benchmark:
----------------------------------------------------------------
$ time ruby quiz139.rb 68.97.89.187 84.191.4.10 80.79.64.128 210.185.128.123
202.10.4.222 192.189.119.1
US
DE
RU
JP
AU
EU

real 0m0.078s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.031s
----------------------------------------------------------------

and by the way: thanks for telling me such a database exists!

cheers

Simon

I think that the timing of the scripts are not a good index. It all =20
depends on what hardware/os you are running it on.
If we want to use speed as an index we should probably have J.E. =20
compare them all on the same machine.

Maybe we could also write a ruby script that runs all the entry =20
scripts and time them, and that could be another ruby quiz which will =20=

also be voted on speed and then we could write a ruby script to time =20
those entries an then we could .... Just ignore this paragraph

Diego Scataglini

On Sep 14, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Simon Kr=C3=B6ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> =
wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Simon Kr=C3=B6ger wrote:
>>
>>> Ruby Quiz wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> $ time ruby ip_to_country.rb 68.97.89.187
>>>> US
>>>>
>>>> real 0m0.314s
>>>> user 0m0.259s
>>>> sys 0m0.053s
>>>
>>> Is an 'initialisation run' allowed to massage the data?
>>> (we should at least split the benchmarks to keep it fair)
>>
>> My script does need and initialization run, yes. I don't see any =20
>> harm
>> in paying a one time penalty to set things up right.
>>
>>> Is it motivating or a spoiler to post timings?
>>
>> Motivating, definitely.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Ok, my script does not need any initialization, it uses the file
> IpToCountry.csv exactly as downloaded.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-cygwin]
>
> $ time ruby quiz139.rb 68.97.89.187
> US
>
> real 0m0.047s
> user 0m0.030s
> sys 0m0.030s
>
> $ time ruby quiz139.rb 84.191.4.10
> DE
>
> real 0m0.046s
> user 0m0.046s
> sys 0m0.015s
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is on a Pentium M 2.13GHz Laptop with 2GB RAM and rather slow HD.
>
> cheers
>
> Simon
>

On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:58 PM, diego scataglini wrote:

> I think that the timing of the scripts are not a good index. It all
> depends on what hardware/os you are running it on.
> If we want to use speed as an index we should probably have J.E.
> compare them all on the same machine.

I view it that we are getting a rough idea of speeds, not exact
counts. Both scripts timed so far seem to be able to answer the
question in under a second on semi-current hardware. Good enough for
me.

> Maybe we could also write a ruby script that runs all the entry
> scripts and time them, and that could be another ruby quiz which
> will also be voted on speed and then we could write a ruby script
> to time those entries an then we could .... Just ignore this paragraph

Thank you for volunteering...

James Edward Gray II

From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@gmx.de>
>
> Ok, my script does not need any initialization, it uses the file
> IpToCountry.csv exactly as downloaded.

We probably did something similar. Mine also works on the
unmodified IpToCountry.csv file.

$ time ruby 139_ip_to_country.rb 67.19.248.74 70.87.101.66 205.234.109.18 217.146.186.221 62.75.166.87
US
US
US
GB
DE

real 0m0.122s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.000s


(ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32], timed from cygwin bash shell,
2GHz athlon64, winxp.)

I don't think the timings are very accurate on this system. It
didn't change much whether I looked up one IP or five.

. . Looking up 80 IPs on one command line resulted in:

real 0m0.242s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.016s


Regards,

Bill

Ruby Quiz wrote:
> This week's Ruby Quiz is to write a simple utility. Your program should accept
> an IP address as a command-line argument and print out the two letter code for
> the country that IP is assigned in.

I assume that it's not ok for folk to use my Ruby GeoIP gem?
It has a reasonable compromise between speed and memory usage.
:-)

Clifford Heath.