a ruby wrapper for the pygments syntax highlighter via embedded python.
$ ruby -rubygems bench.rb 50
user system total real
albino 0.050000 0.050000 12.830000 ( 13.180806)
pygments::c 1.000000 0.010000 1.010000 ( 1.009348)
pygments::ffi + reload 11.350000 1.240000 12.590000 ( 12.692320)
pygments::ffi 1.130000 0.010000 1.140000 ( 1.171589)