Roger Pack wrote:
> Question. Currently with rails startup time in linux for me is like 6s,
> in windows like...20s, but regardless, anybody know just why this is
> taking so long (I'm pretty sure it's cpu bound--curious if anyone's
> investigated this).
> Anyone know any tricks to load things quicker?
> Thanks much.

One reason I found was that things like script/console actually start 
rails *twice*...once to boot the console script, and then another time 
to spin up a new Ruby process running IRB.

I filed a bug on it against Rails, but I don't think it's been accepted yet.

- Charlie