[this issue will be assigned to participants of the RubyConf2023 Hack Day]

There are a couple of issues regarding performance:

• Faker-ruby has too many generators to maintain #2689
• Speedup require and first call #2719

As a first step to tackling these performance issues, we would like to start measuring the performance of faker-ruby as part of the test suite by adding a benchmarking tool.

This tool or script would run as part of the test suite and measure:

• load time for the library
• generator execution speed
• changing locales and measuring load time and performance

Resources:

Other gems do something similar, here are some examples:

• https://github.com/ruby/benchmark
• https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/tree/main/benchmark