It got surprisingly fast actually. We also did things like statically link it which drove the overhead of restarting down further (when the dynamic linker is a

It got surprisingly fast actually. We also did things like statically link it which drove the overhead of restarting down further (when the dynamic linker is a measurable proportion of your total execution time....), and I really liked knowing we had a fully clean slate on every request. I mostly do Ruby these days, and the one thing I strongly dislike is the horribly slow startup...