Re:Bazel 1.0
by paulddraper on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:53PM
(#21293552)
Startup time in any interpreted language is very quickly simply proportional to the amount of code loaded.
time python -c '' # 0.024s
time python -c 'import argparse' # 0.036s
time python -c 'import argparse, json' # 0.040s
time python -c 'import argparse, json, httplib' # 0.065s
That is probably mostly Waf startup time. Python itself starts way faster than that (on the order of 10-20ms on my machine).