Pyhton Interpreter Startup time

[Brian Quinlan]

Neil Benn wrote:

>    As I said the first load takes 5 seconds and the consecutive loads 
> take fractions of a second - my assumption is that Windows is caching 
> something which is not suitable for my needs as it is not predictable 
> enough.  

Neil, are you using Norton Antivirus with autoprotect enabled? I've 
seen that cause problems in the past because NAV scans every file as it 
is opened and Python loads a lot of file on startup.

Cheers,
Brian