Speed of Python vs. Perl

[Paul Jackson]

Mike, responding to pj:
> > I don't see anyway around this.
> 
> One way is to provide some sort of "dump" facility that allows the
> program to initialize, dump the state, and then make an executable
> from the dumped state.  Emacs does (or at least, did) this ...

Yes.  I should have said:

   I don't see any clean, portable, low maintenance way around this <.2 grin>
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