Are there any ways of speeding up rake?

Question

For me, no matter what rake task has been executed, it's at least 20 seconds. The time is too long.

My OS: windows xp, rails: 2.3.8, ruby: 1.8.7

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UPDATE

Are there any ways of speeding up rake? Someone said upgrade to ruby 1.9, but I don't know does it work well with rails 2.3.8? (I see in the rails' website, they recommend ruby 1.8.7)

Answer 1

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Installing_Ruby#Windows_is_slow