Improving interpreter startup speed

[Lie Ryan]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:32:07 -0700, Pedro Borges wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> Is there a way to improve the interpreter startup speed?
> 
> In my machine (cold startup) python takes 0.330 ms and ruby takes 0.047 
> ms, after cold boot python takes 0.019 ms and ruby 0.005 ms to start.
> 
> 
> TIA

um... does it really matter? It's less than a second and only once on the 
program startup...

if you've found yourself destroying small python processes thousands of 
times, try creating the controller program in python, so this controller 
program would import the "small modules" and doesn't restart python 
interpreters that many times.