From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T07:58:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20335] Re: Behavior: autoload calls rb_require() directly

daz wrote:
> Sorry, that's wrong.
> 
> Like Pit just suggested elsewhere in this thread, we can't override to
> log (a, :plus, b) then a._oldplus_(b).
> 
> The design is short-circuited ... *not* optimized.
> 
> A language designer shouldn't test her abilities to second guess what
> the user is likely to want or need to do. It's a lost cause. :)

I wasn't speaking as a language designer or an implementer; I was 
speaking as someone who'd like to be able to get C-like performance out 
of numeric operations in Ruby some day. Yes, it's still possible. But so 
is draining the ocean with an eyedropper.

- Charlie