On Dec 23, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Justin Schumacher wrote:
Laurent,
I made the switch to rbo files. The load time was 3.6 seconds with .rb files and 0.9 seconds with .rbo files. That's a good improvement and is acceptable for my project for the time being.
Does the 0.9 seconds include the startup time of the whole runtime, such as the initial call to [MacRuby sharedRuntime]? If yes, it sounds acceptable for the time being.
I have a plan to boost the startup time of the runtime within a Cocoa environment, by making BridgeSupport files loading faster, and I hope to get this in in 0.9.
I did notice that the Objective-C API method 'evaluateFileAtPath' cannot accept rbo files. To load the rbo files from Objective-C, I'm using the following pattern:
[[MacRuby sharedRuntime] evaluateString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"require '%@'", filename]];
Probably no big performance hit there, but I'm wondering if it would make sense for evaluateFileAtPath to be able to accept rbo files as well as rb files.