From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T02:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] autoloader, version 0.0.2

On 25.11.2009 03:36, David Masover wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 November 2009 04:21:03 pm Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On 11/24/2009 07:06 PM, David Masover wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 24 November 2009 06:43:20 am Robert Klemme wrote:
>>>> Btw, one disadvantage of using a directory glob is that it is far more
>>>> expensive than the standard autoload because the standard autoload
>>>> does not need any file system IO before any file is loaded.  Using
>>>> directory globbing on the other hand requires to at least read the
>>>> directory which may slow down startup of a script considerably.
>>> Except that standard autoload is more work for me, and nearly defeats the
>>> point. Trading requires for autoloads directly makes things harder to
>>> debug without making them easier to write -- it _only_ optimizes start
>>> time.
>> Yeah, absolutely.  If your major goal is to simplify script writing this
>> is definitive a good option.  I just wanted to point out that the
>> convenience comes at a price. :-)
> 
> Well, I want a sane balance.

Fair enough.

> I want to optimize start time to where an app 
> starts in under a second, versus thirty seconds -- and I think I've done that 
> without much additional complexity.

Well, that sounds like a successful optimization operation. :-)

> In other words, I think it's the best of both worlds.
> 
> If I _only_ wanted to simplify script writing, Ramaze has a much simpler 
> solution -- they've defined Kernel#acquire, which requires every .rb file in a 
> given directory tree. That's easier to write and easier to use, but as an app 
> gets bigger, it would get slower.

Good pointer!  Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

	robert

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