Re: eRuby speed issue

Hi,

At Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:55:39 -0800,
[email protected] wrote:
> In it Shugo says:
> > Apache::ERubyRun is very slow, because it uses Tempfile.
> > Tempfile is nesessary to use Kernel#load(filename, true).
> 
> In a subsequent message, Shugo posted a patch which boosted the speed of
> ERubyRun dramatically.  The patch was not included in the archive.
> 
> The message was from March 2003.  I took a quick look at the ERubyRun
> script and it looked like it still uses temp files.  Is that the case?
> (I am running eRuby version 1.0.5.)
> 
> When I did some speed tests with ab (Apache benchmark), mod_ruby alone
> was much faster than with eRuby.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Could I get a copy of the patch?
> 2) Will the patch get merged into eRuby at some point?

The patch is merged in mod_ruby-1.1.2.
eruby-run.rb in it may work on mod_ruby-1.0.7 too.

> 3) Could I get a copy of Apache::FastEruby?

ERubyRun was replaced by FastEruby.

> 4) Any reason not to use them?

I hope no.
If you find any problem, please tell me.

Shugo