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Loading the standard library takes time. With a smaller (underimplemented) standard library, you can get to the user's code much more quickly.
by ephemeralgomi 14y ago
Loading the standard library takes time. With a smaller (underimplemented) standard library, you can get to the user's code much more quickly.
- stcredzero 14y agoPerl 5 had an in-memory footprint of about 768k. VisualWorks Smalltalk had a standard one of 12MB, yet loaded and started it faster than Perl did with 768k. If just your standard library takes very long at all to load, something needs attention.
- wmf 14y agoYeah, a lot of language runtimes seem to not have discovered mmap.