Linux/NT python startup speed

[Niklas Frykholm]

I've been noticing a significant difference in the start-up speed of
Python on my NT machine and on a Linux system where I have an account.

On the Linux system

	python -c "print 'hello'"

times to about 0.1s.

However, on the NT system, the very same command takes 4.0 s.

Can someone explain this difference. (The processor on the Linux system is
certainly not 40 times faster.)

The startup speed on the NT system is a real problem. If you write a
simple system utility (such as wc) you don't want to wait 4 s for it
to start each time you run it.

// Niklas