From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-10-15T23:29:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Slow IO on Windows 2008/10/15 Ittay Dror : > I'm running a Ruby script which loads about 80 ruby files through require. > On Linux it takes no time to load and run. But on windows it takes ~10 > seconds just to load the files. > > Why is Ruby on Windows so slow to load files? Can I do anything about it? > (other than not loading them) Are those files on a network file system? Do you have a virus scanner? robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end