Pyhton Interpreter Startup time

[Peter Hansen]

simo wrote:

> Neil Benn <benn at cenix-bioscience.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1556.1092304607.5135.python-list at python.org>...
>>          I'm looking at a small app which would need a very quick 
>>startup time for the Python interpreter.  It doesn't do much (copying 
>>and caching of files, no GUI) but I need the Python interpreter to start 
>>up very quickly (<1 second on a Windows box).  Is there a way to have a 
>>'stripped' down Python interpreter which can start up very quickly on a 
>>windows box. 
> 
> This has been discussed before, there's definitely something "odd"
> about the Windows startup time in comparison to the UNIX "instant"
> startup.

Discussed, but not to a satisfactory conclusion I think.

The fact that some of us have near instantaneous startup times,
consistently (whether immediately after reboot or not) on Windows,
even with older machines, suggests strongly that those who do
not have something *wrong* with their system.

I don't recall the OP in the last thread that discussed this
ever coming back to report on exactly what OS and CPU etc.
he was using, and whether network issues might be involved,
etc, so until someone can prove otherwise, I think it's
safe to assume that anyone with a slow startup on Windows
has a misconfiguration or is doing something wrong.

-Peter