Are the Rubygems folks also looking at Rubygems effect on performance related to require 'foo'? It sounds in this ticket like it may be a ruby problem, but in other places I have seen, it seemed like the IO/file lookups didn't scale well with lots of gems performance-wise.<p><a href="http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924" rel="nofollow">http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924</a>