opscode/knife-ec2 — pull request #86 by mohitsethi (2012-10-08 10:39:13+00:00)
Title: OC-4235: 'delay-loading' changes to reduce load-time

Here are findings,

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

knife(with knife-google, knife-hp, knife-ec2, knife-windows, knife-terremark, knife-bluelock, knife-ec2)
Before changes,
real	0m4.360s
user	0m3.464s
sys	0m0.280s

After changes,
real	0m1.738s
user	0m1.640s
sys	0m0.076s

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