Ruby's require, autoload and load methods - Speaker Deck

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require autoload load @donschado | 15.01.2014

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http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Kernel.html#method-i-require

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http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Kernel.html#method-i-autoload

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http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Kernel.html#method-i-auto

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Matz (2011) "discourage the use of autoload" [...] autoload itself has fundamental ﬂaw under multi-thread environment. I should have remove autoload when I added threads to the language. ! [...] I hereby declare the future deprecation of autoload. Ruby will keep autoload for a while, since 2.0 should keep compatibility to 1.9.  But you don't expect it will survive further future, e.g. 3.0. I strongly discourage the use of autoload in any standard libraries. ” https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5653 https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/3036681

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”Peter Cooper: I'll be taking the "cross that bridge when I get to it" approach What I think after some research... http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-techniques-revealed-autoload-1652.html I‘m full of autoload   because the lazy loading feature is awesome...