From: Alex 2k8 Date: 2008-12-18T23:03:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Speed up require on win32 > Submit a patch to core :) This was not a patch, just an experiment. I simply commented a call to is_socket in rb_w32_fclose function. The 'require' works, but socket related functionality whould be broken :-) And as for now I see no significant improvements, not going to continue. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.