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Measure startup time of different programming languages

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2018-10-23 · latest 2025-12-11

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  1. I'm referring to the startup time as benchmarked in the following manner: https://github.com/bdrung/startup-time
    comment by randomtoast · 2025-12-11 · in Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
  2. Here is a benchmark https://github.com/bdrung/startup-time This benchmark is a little bit outdated but the problem remains the same. Interpreter initialization: Python builds and initializes its entire virtual machine and built-in object…
    comment by randomtoast · 2025-12-11 · in Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
  3. …CPython 3 takes more than 50x more time to start than dash and 27x time to start than bash (see: https://github.com/bdrung/startup-time , which shows Python3 3.6.4 at 197.79 ms, Bash 4.4.12 at 7.31 ms, and dash 0.5.8 at 2.81 ms). That…
    comment by dwheeler · 2020-02-01 · in Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
  4. …is not similar to Java. [1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... [2]: https://github.com/bdrung/startup-time
    comment by thethirdone · 2018-10-23 · in Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting