On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Benjamin Kaplan > +1 This thread is stupid and pointless. > Even for a so-called cold startup 0.5s is fast enough! Not if the startup is the main cost for a command you need to repeat many times. David