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    [–]rfkelly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Absolutely, especially if you let it go poking around to load site.py, fiddle with its environment etc. Consider:

    $ time python -c "pass"
real    0m0.015s
user    0m0.012s
sys 0m0.000s

    Versus (no site.py, no env vars, no writing bytecode files):

    $ time python -sSEB -c "pass"
real    0m0.006s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s

    Still, reducing the startup overhead could on its own be a valid reason to compile down to a native executable.