Feature #3465: improve gem_prelude's Quickloader's Gem.bin_path

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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The situation currently with rubygems' generated scripts is that they contain a line like

gem 'gem_name', '>= 0' # gem_prelude handles this well
load Gem.bin_path('gem_name', 'binary_name', '>= 0') # gem_prelude is forced to load full rubygems with this line, which takes quite awhile and is frequently unnecessary.

Suggestion:
Supplement gem_prelude's QuickLoader with an ability to look for the default bin path, and, if it's there, return it, without loading full rubygems.

With the attached file included in gem_prelude, on my local windows box, loading of a ruby script goes from

3.8s to 0.65s

On Linux it causes script execution (for a gem binary command) to go from 0.5s to 0.13s

The attached patch file "should" fit straight into gem_prelude.rb in trunk. I can provide a true diff if desired.
Thanks much.
-rp
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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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Sorry that was meant to be a feature request, not bug.
Thanks.
-r
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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

• File gem_prelude_accomodate.diff gem_prelude_accomodate.diff added

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Here's an updated patch, seems to work well.
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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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moving this feature request to rubygems proper and/or the faster_rubygems gem.
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