Goodbye autoload(blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp)

blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp

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

3 comments

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

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.

sad14 anni fa

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