From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2011-11-22T10:25:31+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:41184] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5653] "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries" (Re: autoload will be dead) Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:41183] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5653] "I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries" (Re: autoload will be dead)" on Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:57:54 +0900, jonathan rochkind writes: |My understanding was that plain old 'require' had much the same flaw in a multi-threaded environment as autoload. No? Since calling #require is explicit, there's plenty of chance to manage them. Introducing single lock for #require loading is another issue. matz.