From: murphy <murphy@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T19:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

>>   (b) silently require 'rubygems' in initialization process.  rubygems
>>       requires a lot of other libraries, so that memory consumption
>>       might be an issue.
don't forget performance (interpreter startup time)...on my machine,
-rubygems (v0.9.4) makes Ruby starting nearly 10x slower.

but I haven't tested 0.9.4.5.
[murphy]