opscode/knife-rackspace — pull request #27 by mohitsethi (2012-10-08 14:09:26+00:00)
Title: OC-4235: 'delay-loading' changes to reduce load-time

Here are findings, load-time differences before & after code changes.

# knife-core(no-plugins)
real	0m0.744s
user	0m0.688s
sys	0m0.052s

# knife(with knife-azure, knife-google, knife-hp, knife-ec2, knife-windows,knife-terremark, knife-rackspace)
# before changes,
real	0m6.635s
user	0m3.736s
sys	0m0.376s

# After changes,
real	0m4.805s
user	0m3.452s
sys	0m0.272s

Environment:
1. Chef Version: 10.14.2
2. Ruby Version: 1.9.3p194
3. Gem Version: 1.8.24