From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-10T16:27:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34295] Re: Avoiding $LOAD_PATH pollution

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby 1.9.2 suffers from this, which has been corrected in trunk.
>
> This was caused by excessive stat() calls.

This is also a cause of overhead in JRuby's require, though it's
harder to get around (some of the Java libraries we use do multiple
stats per path visited).

- Charlie