From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-18T15:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems troubles

Hello gga,


g> Problem is... this is taking an ETERNITY to do so and memory
g> consumption while getting the index skyrockets (90Mb+), making my
g> machine swap (*yikes*).  I've already started the process twice and
g> given up on it.

Correct the older gem versions where implemented in a lazy way, which
did not any optimizations. It was a proof-of-concept implementation
which only was able to handle a handful of gems.

It changed a little bit with 0.8.10 (maybe a few versions lower, not sure).
I can use it with some patience on a 56k dial up line.

And for the next future there will be more optimizations. Jim Weirich
posted a message on the Rubygems list just today about the
optimizations that will be in 0.8.12.

Even while i still think that the whole concept is wrong (i would prefer
an intelligent server  and not a simple download place) this will increase
the download speed even more.


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