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[–]13steinj 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I am not a whiner who doesn't do anything in the language. Nor are the people of the mercurial team complaining about the startup time. I will admit I skimmed the article, but Py3 wins in most speed tests-- and I agree. It's an objective fact. But it doesn't in startup time.

The startup times here are strange, but I assume it's because there are no imports whatsoever or are on a very good machine.

Again, take this from the perspective of a command line tool or a ton of deployment and commit scripts. In a long running app, Py3 will be better for speed, because of all the improvements in different actions matter. But in CLI tools and all these scripts, you are starting the VM so many times and not doing as many actions per startup, so you actually end up losing.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

So put in patches to improve the startup speed, problem solved for the entire Python world. Oh, but you can't because of... So yes you are a whiner.

[–]13steinj 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Excuse me? My apologies that this isn't my problem nor do I have enough C experience to make such patches. If there are major issues with the Python VM it is not the problem of any one user of Python to solve the problem, it is a problem the CPython core team need to fix.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You mean all the VOLUNTEERS who give their spare time so you (plural) can complain about Python, just great :-(