From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-03-16T02:27:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28677] Re: [Bug #2723] $: length affects re-require time 	of already loaded files

> $:.length: 1101, 0.008981 seconds
>
> Still not constant, which I think it probably could be if the absolute paths of both "/path/to/foo" and "/path/to/foo.rb" were written to $" when "foo" is loaded. Much better, though.

Nice.  It's probably close enough, compared to previous?


> Any chance this speed improvement will be backported to 1.8.x?

Maybe file a new ticket under 1.8 branch?  Or maybe someone can move
this ticket there for you.
Thanks.
-rp