On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > require "rubygems" is a redundant task unless this library is being built > > for >1.9.3 and even if people don't consider it expensive (and it's not > > expensive in the grand scheme of things) it's just not needed unless you > > are on old-ruby. > > In the code sample Praveen posted, it's only require-d if we get a > loaderror for the packaged version, hence dead code > It's not exactly dead code since it still has a cost considering it's wrapped inside a closure.
