Comment Comment by chubot Spawning processes generally takes much less than 1 ms on UnixSpawning a PYTHON interpreter process might take 30 ms to 300 ms before you get to main(), depending on the number of importsIt's 1 to 2 orders of magnitude difference, so it's worth being preciseThis is a fallacy with say CGI. A CGI in C, Rust, or Go works perfectly well.e.g. sqlite.org runs with a process PER REQUEST - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124 parent chubot 1 year ago
Spawning a PYTHON interpreter process might take 30 ms to 300 ms before you get to main(), depending on the number of imports
It's 1 to 2 orders of magnitude difference, so it's worth being precise
This is a fallacy with say CGI. A CGI in C, Rust, or Go works perfectly well.
e.g. sqlite.org runs with a process PER REQUEST - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124