From: Henrik Horneber <ryco@...>
Date: 2004-12-02T08:35:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails

Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Carl,
> 
> CY> Tobias Luetke wrote:
> 
> 
>>>under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
>>>ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?
>>>
> 
> CY> Question:  I've seen this mentioned a few times now.  If this is the
> CY> case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with
> CY> ruby.exe or rubyw.exe?  It would seem silly to be saying it should be
> CY> one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way.  If
> CY> there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename 
> CY> rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.
> 
> rubyw.exe is faster if you don't need standart output, because everything
> is going to /dev/null.
> 
> I believe that most programs are still command line programs that
> write something useful to standart output. So ther current
> associations are correct.
> 
> 

I agree with Lothar.

method_scope is just a simple test script that prints stuff to stdout.
first with original ruby

H:\ruby\Spielwiese>method_scope.rb
bar
A.moo
instance moo

now I renamed rubyw to ruby
H:\ruby\Spielwiese>method_scope.rb


H:\ruby\Spielwiese>


I'd like to see the output. :)

regards,
Henrik