Douglas Livingstone wrote:

>And I was thinking that my computer's 2 second start time for any
>loacl ruby script was slow!
>  
>
~/rforum : time ruby -e 'puts "aaa"'
aaa

real    0m0.011s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m0.001s

If you need significantly more than 100 msec to start Ruby on a P-III or 
P-IV, something is wrong with your setup.

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Alexey Verkhovsky

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