From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-10-23T08:21:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ERuby speed issues

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:58 pm, Peter Pallock wrote:
> We have been running eruby for a couple of months now, and have found that
> it is extremely slow, taking up to a minute to load a simple page.
>
> Having run the ruby profiler, I have found that the two things that take
> the longest time are: #toplevel and Kernel.require.
>
> Being relatively new to Ruby, I am wanting to confirm what #toplevel is. If
> I understand correctly, #toplevel is just any code that runs without being
> in a class, method, or other type of "container", if you will.
>
> I am also wondering about the Kernel.require speed; is that just because it
> is accessing the file system? It looks like eruby.import commands take
> about as long.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Peter Pallock

Up to a *minute*? That seems a little excessive for a simple page; I ran eRuby 
for well over a year w/out any similar problems (I currently recoding in 
amrita).  Can you post some example code with timing?

~ Bruce