Maybe Ruby is the right language for your need. Just sayin'.
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:19 +0000, Pedro Borges wrote: > The scripts i need to run but be executed with no apparent delay > specially when the text transforms are simple. > > > On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:13 AM, James Mills wrote: > > > 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
