Python startup seems slow... (NT)

[Ian Parker]

In article <14478.25750.656580.780253 at beluga.mojam.com>, Skip Montanaro
<skip at mojam.com> writes
>
>    Jason> Under NT, it seems that starting up python to process even a
>    Jason> trivial script is pretty slow.  With the following python
>    Jason> program, helloworld.py:
>
>    Jason>   print "Hello World"
>
>    Jason> it takes a second or more for "python helloworld.py" to execute
>    Jason> on my machine.  It doesn't get any faster the second or third
>    Jason> time around.
>
>I rather suspect you have a problem of some sort.  On my Linux system I time
>the following command at under 0.05s elapsed time:
>
>    python -c "print 'hello world'"
>
>run from the command line.
>
>    Jason> Is there anything I can do to improve the performance?  Is this a
>    Jason> known problem?
>
>Not a known problem that I'm aware of.  If simple scripts like that with no
>imports took a second to run in general on NT, I'm sure we'd have heard
>about it by now.  (Not criticizing, just suggesting you turn over a few
>rocks on your system.)  I seem to recall that NT has a pretty nice system
>resource monitoring tool.  Are you running your script on a completely
>quiescent system?
>
>Skip Montanaro | http://www.mojam.com/
>skip at mojam.com | http://www.musi-cal.com/
>847-971-7098
>

I've just tried this on a 400Mhz Pentium III running NT4 / SP4.  It runs
in just under a second the first time, and much faster subsequently.  OF
course it may depend on what else is running on the PC.

Regards

Ian
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Ian Parker