> I did ran some test between bare C doing IO with lot of files and > folders and compare it with ruby. There are so many functions called > just to reach the native API that make things slow. > > Don't have to much time now to invest on fixing this, sorry. Oh I wasn't complaining about the speed on windows (though it is slower). I was mostly wondering about ruby itself being so slow to load rails :) -=r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.