From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-11-01T15:22:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40612] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5427] Not complex patch to improve `require` time (load.c)

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 06:40, Yura Sokolov <funny.falcon@gmail.com> wrote:

> In fact, be present relative require is twice slower (in 1.9.2, 1.9.3), cause ruby checks such file before and after path expansion.

Slower than what?  Require_relative is a lot faster than require when
RubyGems is involved, as require_relative doesn���t walk $LOAD_PATH when
it looks for the file.