Martin v. Löwis wrote: [...] > > This whole discussion is not about whether the start time actually > matters - it is about whether it is a fact or not that eggs improve > the startup. Some people said it does, others said it doesn't, and this > is just the finding-of-facts phase. > > Anyway, > > > I'm terribly curious what Python applications exist for whom: > > 1. Startup time is a consideration, that > > 2. Haven't already been refactored to a long-running process. > > For this, CGI scripts come to mind. Many people use them, and they > are often short-running, and they often get invoked frequently.
Another example would be bzr <http://bazaar.canonical.com/Bzr>; revision control command line tools (or command line tools in general, I suppose) feel much nicer to use when they respond immediately. It doesn't take many hundreds of milliseconds of startup delay for a tool to start feeling a little bit sluggish. -Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
