[Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

[Skip Montanaro]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish it was less
> than 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds) including running hg, which is the
> common threshold for "instant".

"Instant" for me is "the blink of an eye," which Wikipedia reports as
typically between 100ms and 400ms.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink> If you blink, you've missed
Python 2.7 startup on a relatively modern machine.

<wink>

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