Hi Tomas, So all of the dialogs in our application are built using IR. The first time any dialog is used there's probably a second or two delay, then there's probably a half second (or maybe a bit less) delay each time a new dialog is required for the first time. I've thought about doing all of this on a secondary thread at startup, but that would require "unwinding" our code a bit. Presumably we could just require all the dialog ruby code when we fire up the app. This would probably work and would potentially take a few seconds.
Right now, our application is deployed via mono on the mac, so we're using the .net 2.0 sp1 binaries and they're just sitting there alongside our binaries. We're still deciding about whether we'll go with .NET 2.0 sp1 or .NET 4 for our next PC version and will use the IR binary for the framework version we decide on. I would say we're not "requiring" (in the ruby sense of the word) anything too exotic, just a bunch of ruby files at runtime. We use a small subset of the standard library. Do you know what happens if I change the compilation threshold while running, btw? Seriously, i cant thank you guys enough for the great work you do. Martin On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Tomas Matousek <tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote: > How long does it take to require all the files you need? Do you use installed > IronRuby v1.0 binaries for .NET 4.0 or do you build IronRuby yourself? > Can you be specific about what you're requiring? > > Tomas > > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org > [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Martin Smith > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:27 AM > To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] What's next? > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
