A little utility to make require ‘xxx’

take much less time.

This is almost necessary for using 1.9.x on windows, and helps with 1.8, too.

If you’ve ever wondered why ruby feels slow…sometimes it’s just the startup time, my friend. This helps with that.

Benchmarks:

loading

fast 0.34375 slow 3.203125

test rails app, running script/console “puts 333”

windows:

1.9.1
  without: