Between a 1.2 KiB and 600 Byte program, probably not, no. I wrote that section to confront the general idea that program startup performance is irrelevant and t

Between a 1.2 KiB and 600 Byte program, probably not, no. I wrote that section to confront the general idea that program startup performance is irrelevant and that optimizing it doesn't matter; a language that assumes so will start piling up features until it actually does, like it does for C in the example.