From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T22:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is rake really slow?

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:57:30 -0000, Rich wrote:

> Ok I've narrowed down the environment part of the problem. What's
> taking long is the require_frameworks method in rails' Initializer.
> The active_record, action_controller and action_web_services
> frameworks take a while (a few seconds each) to load. So now the
> question is why? I'm not sure where to look to dig deeper into this,
> i.e., see what the require method is actually doing. Any ideas?

Probably useless data point:

On my 3GHz dual-core Athlon, under either Cygwin or virtualized Ubuntu,
with RAID-0 10,000-RPM drives, initializing the rails environment takes
7-10 seconds.

On my 2.16GHz dual-core MacBook Pro, with a single 5200-RPM drive,
initializing the rails environment takes a second or two.

You can imagine my workaround.

Jay Levitt