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Any link to a discussion on these Ruby stat calls? We might look into them as well.

• steveklabnik 11y ago
  The core issue is that Rubygems adds the `lib` directory of every gem to your path, so you end up calling stat a zillion times. I am admittedly a bit out of the Ruby loop these days, so it's possible that this has been improved. The fastest way of course is to not load a zillion gems...