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> The sluggish nature of the interpreter, especially the long startup time,
> is the main thing that's keeping me from doing most of my serious application
> programming in Python.
I'm curious about this, since I don't observe this myself. Are you
talking about the time to start python itself? Or are you talking
about the time to load a set of standard modules.
Also, what do you mean by a long sluggish start-up time? How long are
you talking about?
On my system, I have used dynamic linking to the fullest extent
possible to limit the size of the Python executable. Most of the
standard built-in modules are dynamically linked, as are the X11/Motif
modules. If I had not done this, It would have taken quite a bit
longer.
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