startup time (was: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme)

[Björn Lindberg]

Bruce Lewis <brlspam at yahoo.com> writes:

> j-anthony at rcn.com (Jon S. Anthony) writes:
> 
> > If your problems are trivial, I suppose the presumed lower startup
> > costs of Python may mark it as a good solution medium.
> 
> I find no significant difference in startup time between python and
> mzscheme.

My preliminary results in this very important benchmark indicates that
python performs equally well to the two benchmarked Common Lisps:

200 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do lisp -noinit -eval '(quit)'; done

real    0m2,24s
user    0m1,36s
sys     0m0,83s
201 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do lisp -noinit -eval '(quit)'; done

real    0m2,24s
user    0m1,39s
sys     0m0,82s
202 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do clisp -q -x '(quit)'; done  

real    0m2,83s
user    0m1,74s
sys     0m1,03s
203 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do clisp -q -x '(quit)'; done

real    0m2,79s
user    0m1,67s
sys     0m1,09s
204 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do python -c exit; done        

real    0m2,41s
user    0m1,85s
sys     0m0,52s
205 bjorn at nex:~> time for ((i=0; i<100; i++)); do python -c exit; done

real    0m2,41s
user    0m1,89s
sys     0m0,52s

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Björn