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Startup time doesn’t seem to be factored in correctly, so any language that uses a bytecode (e.g. Java) or is compiling from source (e.g. Ruby, Python, etc.) wi
by drob518 11mo ago
Startup time doesn’t seem to be factored in correctly, so any language that uses a bytecode (e.g. Java) or is compiling from source (e.g. Ruby, Python, etc.) will look poor on this. If the kids of applications that you write are ones that exit after a fraction of a second, then sure, this will tell you something. But if you’re writing server apps that run for days/weeks/months, then this is useless.
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- vhdd 11mo agoPython took 86 seconds, if I'm reading it correctly. I can see your point holding for a language like Java, but most of Python's time spent cannot have been startup time, but actual execution time.
- drob518 11mo agoYea, for Python it’s also just slow (not the language, but CPython; you can do much better with PyPy).