Makes sense, most of my scripts are standalone zero dependency scripts that import a few things from the standard library.

`time pip3 --version` takes 230ms on my machine.

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maccard 4 days ago | parent [-]

That proves the point, right?

`time pip3 --version` takes ~200ms on my machine. `time go help` takes 25, and prints out 30x more lines than pip3 --version.

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nickjj 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yep, running time on my tool's --version takes 50ms and funny enough processing 10k CSV lines with ~2k lines of Python code takes 100ms, so 50ms of that is just Python preparing things to run by importing 20 or so standard library modules.

	▲	zahlman 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> so 50ms of that is just Python preparing things to run by importing 20 or so standard library modules. Probably a decent chunk of that actually is the Python runtime starting up. I don't know what all you `import` that isn't implied at startup, though. Another chunk might be garbage collection at process exit.