You guys have hit the nail on the head for me I actually want it for both reasons: to provide some loose protection for our code and to improve startup times.
I was thinking about doing something around packaging like you guys were talking about, but i think then I'd have to redefine Kernel.require to make sure that all the require statements execute properly. For code protection, it only provided small benefits (a determined code stealer would easily circumvent the protections), but if it helped with startup times that would benefit us greatly. The issue is that we use IR for our UI layer so the first time they ask for any dialog it needs to compile quite a bit of code so the first time they load a dialog can take some time. I've thought of changing this so we do the compilation at startup but i'm not quite sure if that will work. I'd envision something like this: 1) set compilation threshold to 0 (compile immediately) 2) execute "require 'file'" for each ruby script 3)set compilation threshold to 1 so eval doesn't compile everything (we semi-extensively use eval) Would something like this be possible? Is the compilation threshold settable dynamically? Thanks in advance, Martin _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
