From: Rich <richpoirier@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T02:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is rake really slow?

On Aug 16, 9:14 am, Jay Levitt <jay+n...@jay.fm> wrote:
> 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

That's really interesting Jay. I'm running RoR on my HP dual core AMD
Turion 1.6GHz laptop. So maybe the 10+ seconds my environment takes to
initialize is normal for my system then? Should I just get a MacBook
or is there any way I can speed the initialization up?