Improving interpreter startup speed

[James Mills]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:40 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> Depends on the tool: build tool and source control tools are example
> it matters (specially when you start interfaciing them with IDE or
> editors). Having fast command line tools is an important feature of
> UNIX, and if you want to insert a python-based tool in a given
> pipeline, it can hurt it the pipeline is regularly updated.

Fair enough. But still:
0.5s old startup is fast enough
0.08s warm startup is fast enough.

Often "fast enough" is "fast enough"

--JamesMills

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