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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by geofft on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:43PM (#16981806)
Is ... that faster than CPython? Wow. Maybe I should symlink /usr/bin/python -> pypy on my laptop....
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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by masklinn on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:32AM (#16984500)
It's much slower. On my machine, "$PYTHON -c ''" (execute nothing) takes 60ms on Python 2.7, 80ms on 3.6 and 250ms on pypy.
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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by chc on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @08:09PM (#16982250)
It's not. You can test it on your system. In every case I've seen, Python starts up faster than PyPy. Neither takes a super long time.

PyPy has some great performance characteristics, but startup time isn't one of them.

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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by firethief on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:52PM (#16981860)
Startup << warmup.
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