From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2011-01-14T18:42:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34493] Re: proposal: gem_prelude needs to die

Hi,

2011/1/14 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:
>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 07:24 , Tanaka Akira wrote:
>
>> Apart from that, I'm afraid startup cost.
>
> Not being able to upgrade is a far bigger problem than startup cost.

Even so, this is TOO SLOW!


  $ time ./ruby --disable-gems -ve ''
  ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-14 trunk 30544) [i686-linux]

  real    0m0.017s
  user    0m0.012s
  sys     0m0.004s


  $ time ./ruby -ve ''
  ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-01-14 trunk 30544) [i686-linux]

  real    0m0.127s
  user    0m0.120s
  sys     0m0.008s


> We can address any remaining startup costs in rubygems directly.

This should be done first.


I really like scala, but I couldn't live with its startup slowness.
Please don't make ruby scala.

-- 
Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp>