Benchmarking and modernization

jqr commented 7 years ago

This pull request started off as me doing some benchmark testing along with minor improvements and then turned into a whole modernization thing. I'm happy to break it into smaller PRs or whatever you like, but I thought this might be just mergeable as-is and save us both some work :)

Summary:

Latest ruby for dev, all latest MINOR versions for test.
Use pessimistic version constraints on all dependencies. A few forks had already done something similar to get the latest and greatest ox.
Require ox of at least 2.6.0. This is known to work on modern macOS and includes a lot of fixes/improvements. See CHANGELOG.
Minor cleanup and improvements to benchmark/benchmark.rb and run on modern hardware.
Fix a few deprecations.

tortoro commented 7 years ago

+1 this would be amazing

jqr commented 6 years ago

@cloocher Anything I can do to help this along?

cloocher commented 6 years ago

merge

cloocher / xmlhasher

Benchmarking and modernization #7