Improving interpreter startup speed

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:33 PM, James Mills
<prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> Yes, but in most cases you are not invoking your
> command-line app x times per y units of time.

Depends on the tool: build tool and source control tools are example
it matters (specially when you start interfaciing them with IDE or
editors). Having fast command line tools is an important feature of
UNIX, and if you want to insert a python-based tool in a given
pipeline, it can hurt it the pipeline is regularly updated.

cheers,

David