From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2025-01-14T13:15:26+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:120661] [Ruby master Bug#21032] `Module#autoload?` is slow when `$LOAD_PATH` contains a relative path

Issue #21032 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


byroot (Jean Boussier) wrote in #note-2:
> @fxn tracked it down to https://github.com/emailage/Emailage_Ruby/blob/64b9762cda7608ac1eeced2a85ad5f4b7919f4f0/lib/emailage.rb#L1, and yes that's an anti-pattern in my opinion too.

Right, that's just broken code. It would consider files under `lib` in $PWD for require which is wrong.

> Perhaps we should try to emit a performance warning when a relative path or non-string object is appended to `$LOAD_PATH`. That would at least make it easier to notice this issue.
> 
> The problem of course is that `$LOAD_PATH` is just a regular array, so there isn't a clean hook where to check for this.

Maybe just warn on `require` or so, i.e. when noticing the path is relative, if it's too hard to notice when it's added?
I think there is also a cache for the expanded load path, maybe that could be a reasonable place to check.
It wouldn't immediately point at the culprit, but printing the $LOADED_FEATURES should help find it (maybe there should be a CLI flag/ENV var to print files as they are loaded, TruffleRuby has that).

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Bug #21032: `Module#autoload?` is slow when `$LOAD_PATH` contains a relative path
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21032#change-111487

* Author: byroot (Jean Boussier)
* Status: Open
* Backport: 3.1: WONTFIX, 3.2: REQUIRED, 3.3: REQUIRED, 3.4: REQUIRED
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Reproduction script:

```ruby
require 'benchmark'

$LOAD_PATH << 'relative-path'

autoload :FOO, '/tmp/foo.rb'

puts Benchmark.realtime {
  500_000.times do
    Object.autoload?(:FOO)
  end
}
```

The above takes 2.5 to 3 seconds on my machine, but just removing `$LOAD_PATH << 'relative-path'` make it complete in 50ms.
It's such a stark difference that I think it is a bug, and it cause Zeitwerk, a very popular gem, to be way slower than it should
when the load path contains relative paths.

I have a patch for it, that passes all tests, but I'd appreciate some eyes on it: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/12562

cc @fxn 



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