Improving interpreter startup speed

[Terry Reedy]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> It this a theoretical problem or an actual one, that we might have other
>> suggestions for?
> 
> Any command line based on python is a real example of that problem.

No it is not.
The specific problem that you wrote and I responded to was

"Not if the startup is the main cost for a command you need to repeat 
many times. "

in a short enough period so that the startup overhead was a significant 
fraction of the total time and therefore a burden.