From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T04:32:54+09:00
Subject: Re: why does ruby load rails so slow?

Roger Pack wrote:
> 
>> I did ran some test between bare C doing IO with lot of files and
>> folders and compare it with ruby. There are so many functions called
>> just to reach the native API that make things slow.
>> 
>> Don't have to much time now to invest on fixing this, sorry.
> 
> Oh I wasn't complaining about the speed on windows (though it is 
> slower).  I was mostly wondering about ruby itself being so slow to load 
> rails :)

It's mainly because there there's so darn much of it (try 'puts 
$LOADED_FEATURES' from within script/console)
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