From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-11-23T08:51:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41228] Re: autoload will be dead

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Today, I talked with NaHi about enhancing const_missing to enable
> autoload-like feature with nested modules.  But autoload itself has
> fundamental flaw under multi-thread environment.  I should have remove
> autoload when I added threads to the language (threads came a few
> months after autoload).

Hi, many of my Ruby scripts/apps are single-threaded and I would
like to keep memory usage down.

How about keeping autoload unchanged for single-threaded use and have
modules registered via autoload instantly require everything registered
when Thread.new is called?