Keeping Python loaded

[Kragen Sitaker]

pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> If you merely want to spare disk acceses under Unix, a possible approach
> might be to set the sticky bit on the Python executable.  You might need
> to be super-user to do that:
> 
>         chmod 1755 /usr/bin/python
> 
> On the other hand, on Linux at least, the disk cache maintained by
> the system might be helpful to the point of not even having to
> resort to the above trick.

If you're using a version of Unix that runs on hardware that doesn't
support paging, such as a PDP-11, then this might help.  But I don't
think Python runs on any such versions of Unix, so the sticky bit on
ordinary files is purely an anachronism.