Linux/NT python startup speed

[S. Hoon Yoon]

I had same problem myself. Untill some dork messed up my registry and I had
to reinstall everything. Some how it was fixed. I don't know how. I wish I
can be more help, but I can only tell you how it was fixed.
On my NT 300Mhz Pentium II, it take about a second first time and takes no
time afterward. I do have a  lot of memory. On my 650Mhz pentium, I can't
even tell you how fast it is. Hit the enter key and I am done. So, it may be
something else entirely.

Hoon,

"Niklas Frykholm" <r2d2 at mao.acc.umu.se> wrote in message
news:slrn8l3ifj.hv1.r2d2 at mao.acc.umu.se...
> I've been noticing a significant difference in the start-up speed of
> Python on my NT machine and on a Linux system where I have an account.
>
> On the Linux system
>
> python -c "print 'hello'"
>
> times to about 0.1s.
>
> However, on the NT system, the very same command takes 4.0 s.
>
> Can someone explain this difference. (The processor on the Linux system is
> certainly not 40 times faster.)
>
> The startup speed on the NT system is a real problem. If you write a
> simple system utility (such as wc) you don't want to wait 4 s for it
> to start each time you run it.
>
> // Niklas