From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T21:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems implementation question


On 4/5/2004, at 7:34 AM, Charles Comstock wrote:

> 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.
>

Pickiness is exactly what's needed right now.  Thanks.
>
Chad