Hello Carl,

CY> Tobias Luetke wrote:

>>under windows it seems to be very important to use rubyw.exe and not
>>ruby.exe for performance. Maybe thats it ?
>>
CY> Question:  I've seen this mentioned a few times now.  If this is the
CY> case, does the ruby installer for Windows associate .rb files with
CY> ruby.exe or rubyw.exe?  It would seem silly to be saying it should be
CY> one way and then have all the default behaviors do it the other way.  If
CY> there is no good use for ruby.exe, then we should simply rename 
CY> rubyw.exe to ruby.exe.

rubyw.exe is faster if you don't need standart output, because everything
is going to /dev/null.

I believe that most programs are still command line programs that
write something useful to standart output. So ther current
associations are correct.


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