From: Charles Comstock <cc1@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T20:34:03+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems implementation question

Chad Fowler wrote:

>>
> You're right, but if we replaced this with:
> 
> FileUtils.mkdir_p File.join(install_dir, "specifications")
> FileUtils.mkdir_p File.join(install_dir, "cache")
> 
> ..it would run between 300 and 400 times slower (literally).  That's not 
> a big deal for a single require_gem, but in a system that loads a *lot* 
> of gems, it might be a problem.
> 

Oh because it executes another program as opposed to making a system 
call or something like that?  Sorry wasn't trying to be picky I wasn't 
familiar with FileUtils and was thinking about using it my own projects. 
  I hadn't thought of that performance issue with making a system call.

Hmm maybe that should be in the standard library info about FileUtils.

Thank you for the info,
	Charles Comstock