How does Python compare to ?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:20:31PM +0000, Donn Cave wrote:

> After reading your analysis I tried "python -S", and shaved off
> a third of the startup time!  That's enough to make a lot of
> difference to someone who's starting python 20 times per second.
> Wonder how much Python software depends on this feature?

'depends' is a large word, but I know at least one fair-sized Python package
that uses it: Mailman.

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