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Re:Bazel 1.0 by Liquid_Fire on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:39AM (#21290180)
> so I guess 0.09s is Python's start-up time (and some other overhead)

That is probably mostly Waf startup time. Python itself starts way faster than that (on the order of 10-20ms on my machine).

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