From: Shugo Maeda Date: 2010-03-13T10:32:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:28634] [Bug #2723] $: length affects re-require time of already loaded files Issue #2723 has been updated by Shugo Maeda. I guess the speed of require has got faster in the SVN trunk. Could you try it? However, if a relative path is included in $:, requrie gets slower because paths in $" are absolute paths. If paths in $" are relative, the following code loads foo.rb twice. require "/path/to/foo" require "foo" Paths in $" are therefore absolute paths now. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2723 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org