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Re:The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) by ohhmaagawd on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @02:37PM (#391653)
jruby startup is about <1 second on my box. They did a bunch of tweaks earlier this year to solve the issue.
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Re:The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) by old-gregg on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @03:18PM (#391699)
No it isn't. I am seeing an even lower number: 0.24 sec on my box, right after reboot.

That's called the filesystem cache and pre-fetch daemon (present on Vista/OSX).

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