Goodbye autoload

Posted by emson on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @07:45AM
from the blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp dept.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/41149

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Re:Goodbye autoload by seppo0010 on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:39AM (#3734071)

Including "[Ruby]" in the title would be nice.

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Re:Goodbye autoload by judofyr on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:23AM (#3734219)

Note that this is from Nov 2011. Since then there's been a massive discussion about handling requires in a multi-thread environment. A lot of the problems with autoload comes from the fact that requiring isn't thread-safe, so if that gets fixed (global lock around requiring files) autoload won't be that bad anymore and might live on for another release.

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Re:Goodbye autoload by sad on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:41AM (#3734311)

It is threadsafe in jruby (as of 1.6.6)[1]. It is a decent feature, and it would be great if matz would reconsider.

[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3194

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