> However, the slow down only affects Pythons built with --enabled-shared anyway. On Gentoo, the ebuild for Python and Ruby both have --enable-shared hardcoded

> However, the slow down only affects Pythons built with --enabled-shared anyway. On Gentoo, the ebuild for Python and Ruby both have --enable-shared hardcoded. Also, if you use prebuilt Ruby binaries from RVM, those were also built with --enable-shared. And if you build your own Ruby binaries with ruby-build, it also does --enable-shared. So, there are still plenty of opportunities around for instant speedup.