I would guess that Windows users don't tend to run lots of command line tools where startup time dominates, as *nix users do.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jul 21, 2017, at 01:25 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > >That is what Emacs does, and it causes them a lot of trouble. They're > >trying to move away from it at the moment, but the direction is not yet > >clear. The keyword is "unexec", and it wrecks havoc with malloc. > > Emacs has been unexec'ing for as long as I can remember (which is longer > than > I can remember Python :). I know that it's been problematic and there have > been many efforts over the years to replace it, but I think it's been a > fairly > successful technique in practice, at least on platforms that support it. > That's another problem with the approach of course; it's not universally > possible to implement. > > -Barry > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > mertz%40gnosis.cx > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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