WHY is python slow?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:34:32PM +0700, Steven Haryanto wrote:

> Btw, I believe, for one thing, Python's (I last tried with 1.5.2)
> startup time is significantly higher than that of Perl.

That's because Python sets up a nice environment for you, with locale and
nicely reachable site-packages such. Try running python with '-S', which
skips the loading of site.py, and compare again.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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