From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-10-30T19:06:51+09:00 Subject: Re: OSX: require seems very slow 2008/10/29 Matt Wynne : > I have very little idea what I'm going when building things from source, > but I feel as if I'm on to something here. Any pointers appreciated very > much. Maybe you have an extremely lenghty library path or directories reside on slow disks (e.g. NFS on a different machine, potentially with network trouble). You can check the path with ruby -e 'puts $:' Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end