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Bug #9906

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duplicated require of '.so' files?

Added by runixo (Martin Sarsale) almost 10 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.1.0p0 (2013-12-25 revision 44422) [i686-linux]
[ruby-core:62948]

Description

Dear all,

We are trying to get rid of autoload;
We could require everything in the first line of the file but instead we
prefer to require only what we need, when we need it.

So, instead of

require "digest/md5"
def foo(n)
Digest::MD5.hexdigest(n)
end

we would like to do:

def foo(n)
require "digest/md5"
Digest::MD5.hexdigest(n)
end

The problem we've found, is that duplicate require(name), satisfied by
".rb" files are only executed once; but when file loaded by
require(name) is a '.so', next requires with the same name will be
executed again and again.

Example:

$ cat require-rb.rb

def foo(n)
require "set"
Set.new([n])
end
1000.times{|n|
puts foo(n)
}

$ strace -e trace=file -o require-rb.log ruby require-rb.rb
$ grep -c -E 'open.*/set' require-rb.log
8

$ cat require-so.rb

def foo(n)
require "digest/md5"
Digest::MD5.hexdigest(n.to_s)
end
1000.times{|n|
puts foo(n)
}

$ strace -e trace=file -o require-so.log ruby require-so.rb
$ grep -c -E 'open.*/md5' require-so.log
16001

Is this a bug or a feature?

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

Hello, Martin.

It is not a bug.

At first, please take a look at the script belows.

Script:

$LOAD_PATH << "."
File.unlink "dbm.rb" if File.exist?("dbm.rb")
p require "dbm"

open("dbm.rb", "w") do |f|
  f.puts(<<-EOF)
    p "local dbm.rb is loaded"
  EOF
end

p require "dbm"

Result:

true
"local dbm.rb is loaded"
true

Kernel#require search a script/extention library file in $LOAD_PATH directories in order.
Even though the feature was already loaded, Kernel#require search $LOAD_PATH for a new file which have higher priority.
In your example, require "digest/md5" search under site_ruby, vendor_ruby etc.

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