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Created October 16, 2012 00:51
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Why is ruby 1.9.3 so slow to start?
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y_u_so_slow.txt
$ time perl -e 'print "foo\n"'
foo
real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s
$ time ruby -e 'puts "foo"'
foo
real 0m0.184s
user 0m0.082s
sys 0m0.101s
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.4.0]
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pjb3 commented Oct 16, 2012

Hmm..appears to be related to rvm:

$ rvm system
$ time ruby -e ''

real    0m0.026s
user    0m0.003s
sys 0m0.015s

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