Rails on Windows is so slow (rails -v takes 4 seconds)

Question

I\'m using rails Version 3.0.3 and ruby Version 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-15) on a Intel Core 2 Duo 2,6 Ghz with 4 GB Ram and Windows Vista Business SP2 with no other (heavy) appli

Answer 1

you can try playing with ruby's garbage collecter to make ruby faster, since the defaults variable settings don't match how windows work

also Garbage collector performance tuning