From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T11:40:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20282] Re: autoload and concurrency

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because of this problem, we *will* be removing the use of autoload in 1.1.
> However, this is still a pretty big bug in Ruby itself (since it makes
> autoload broken).


Why not use const_missing for lazy loading and protect "require" by a
mutex (there could be a deadlock, if requires are nested, but in
practice I was assuming it can be avoided)