On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:23 AM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How are you getting those numbers? 330 μs is still pretty fast, isn't > it? :) Most disks have a seek time of 10-20 ms so it seem implausible > to me that Ruby would be able to cold start in 47 ms.
$ time python -c "pass" real 0m0.051s user 0m0.036s sys 0m0.008s $ time python3.0 -c "pass" real 0m0.063s user 0m0.048s sys 0m0.004s And yes I agree. the CPython interpreter startup times is a stupid thing to be worrying about, especially since that is never the bottleneck. Python loads plenty fast enough! --JamesMills -- -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
