[Python-Dev] startup time repeated? why not daemon

[Paul Moore]

On 20 July 2017 at 18:53, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it too hard to create a daemon server?
> Is the communication and context switch slower than a new startup?
> Is the pattern just not well-enough advertised?

Managing a daemon (including things like stopping it when it's been
idle for "too long") is hard to get right, and even more so when it
needs to be cross-platform. That's not always a problem, but probably
is enough of the time to make "use a daemon" a somewhat specialist
solution.

Paul