From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-09-05T11:46:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Options for optimizing a large Ruby system

sera@fhwang.net (Francis Hwang) wrote in message news:<7b561b93.0209041416.73b9be3a@posting.google.com>...
> Hi everybody:
> 
> I've written a large e-commerce system in Ruby, and it works fine but
> it's slow. After poking around the code a bit, I think that the big
> bottleneck comes from loading all the required files. The system is
> extremely OO -- more than 100 separate classes -- and there're a lot
> of classes that need to be loaded in with "require" statements before
> a single line is executed.
> 
> So now I'm looking around for ways to speed things up. Using modruby
> is probably an option, but I'm unsure as to whether that'll do what I
> need ... I know it keeps the Ruby interpreter in memory, but I really
> need something that might keep loaded classes in memory. Does modruby
> do that, or is that too much to ask? And failing that, what do people
> think would be the next best option for me to pursue?

Since the interpreter loads a given "require 'file'" once, I believe a
mod_ruby process will also load the file once.

I'd suggest trying mod_ruby, and be sure to keep "before" and "after"
numbers!

Cheers,

Patrick