From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T10:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: gem/rdoc/ri errors on mingw

D��a Streda 15 Febru��r 2006 23:14 James Britt nap��sal:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > D����a Streda 15 Febru����r 2006 17:53 Alex Combas nap����sal:
> >>I wonder if documentation is really nessisary though? Sure its nice, but
> >>is there any difference between having it local and viewing it on
> >> ruby-doc ?
> >
> > Well, the online version is faster than ri ;)
>
> So *that's* why my bandwidth is going through the roof.
>

Well, I have a crappy CPU, and a wonderful cable connection. 

david@chello082119107152:~$ time ri -T Array#[]
(snip)
real    0m0.876s
user    0m0.589s
sys     0m0.108s

david@chello082119107152:~$ ping -c 1 ruby-doc.org
PING ruby-doc.org (207.44.206.37) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from tagbomb.com (207.44.206.37): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=152 ms

And unless you set that wossname header to no-cache globally, the strain can't 
be that horrible. At least not from us Opera users.

> :)
> :
> > But at least a working rdoc is somewhat important, I'd say.
>
> I would think so, unless you have a guaranteed Net connection.

I meant for documentation generation actually.

David Vallner