Improving interpreter startup speed

[BJörn Lindqvist]

2008/10/25 Pedro Borges <pedro.dhb at gmail.com>:
> Is there a way to improve the interpreter startup speed?
>
> In my machine (cold startup) python takes 0.330 ms and ruby takes
> 0.047 ms, after cold boot python takes 0.019 ms and ruby 0.005 ms to
> start.

How are you getting those numbers? 330 μs is still pretty fast, isn't
it? :) Most disks have a seek time of 10-20 ms so it seem implausible
to me that Ruby would be able to cold start in 47 ms.


-- 
mvh Björn