When loading Ruby source files, we can save the result of
successful opens as open(2)/openat(2) are a fairly expensive
syscalls. This also avoids a time-of-check-to-time-of-use
(TOCTTOU) problem.
This reduces open(2) syscalls during `require'; but should be
most apparent when users have a small $LOAD_PATH. Users with
large $LOAD_PATH will benefit less since there'll be more
open(2) failures due to ENOENT.
With `strace -c -e openat ruby -e exit' under Linux, this
results in a ~14% reduction of openat(2) syscalls
(glibc uses openat(2) to implement open(2)).
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
0.00 0.000000 0 296 110 openat
0.00 0.000000 0 254 110 openat
Additionally, the introduction of `struct ruby_file_load_state'
may make future optimizations more apparent.
This change cannot benefit binary (.so) loading since the
dlopen(3) API requires a filename and I'm not aware of an
alternative that takes a pre-existing FD. In typical
situations, Ruby source files outnumber the mount of .so
files.
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