Hi, I noticed recently that require 'rspec' on my machine was taking close to half a second. That's not a huge amount of time, but it is still the single slowest part of my test suite.
It boils down to Ruby 1.9's rather slow require. I'm using 1.9.3, but I'd still like to shave off some of the require time. As an experiment, I went into rspec-core and rspec-expectations (the two biggest offenders) and replaced all require calls with require_relative. The benefits are actually quite impressive: rspec-core: before: 0.16s after: 0.10s rspec-expectations: before: 0.16s after: 0.05s Applying this to rspec-mocks also, my total require time for 'rspec' has gone from 0.5s to 0.21s. These are just quick a nasty timings, but there's obviously some win to be had. Would David, or the RSpec developers in general accept a patch to use require_relative if 1.9 is detected? Are there scenarios under which require_relative would not be possible? Cheers Ian _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
