← Back to context Comment by geofft 8 years ago Is ... that faster than CPython? Wow. Maybe I should symlink /usr/bin/python -> pypy on my laptop.... 3 comments geofft Reply masklinn 8 years ago It's much slower. On my machine, "$PYTHON -c ''" (execute nothing) takes 60ms on Python 2.7, 80ms on 3.6 and 250ms on pypy. chc 8 years ago It's not. You can test it on your system. In every case I've seen, Python starts up faster than PyPy. Neither takes a super long time.PyPy has some great performance characteristics, but startup time isn't one of them. firethief 8 years ago Startup << warmup.
masklinn 8 years ago It's much slower. On my machine, "$PYTHON -c ''" (execute nothing) takes 60ms on Python 2.7, 80ms on 3.6 and 250ms on pypy.
chc 8 years ago It's not. You can test it on your system. In every case I've seen, Python starts up faster than PyPy. Neither takes a super long time.PyPy has some great performance characteristics, but startup time isn't one of them.
It's much slower. On my machine, "$PYTHON -c ''" (execute nothing) takes 60ms on Python 2.7, 80ms on 3.6 and 250ms on pypy.
It's not. You can test it on your system. In every case I've seen, Python starts up faster than PyPy. Neither takes a super long time.
PyPy has some great performance characteristics, but startup time isn't one of them.
Startup << warmup.