Slow startup?

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:57:04PM +0200, Jo Vermeulen wrote:
[...]
> 
> Here are some figures:
> 
> powerhorse:~ jo$ time bzr
> usage: bzr COMMAND
>   try "bzr help"
> 
> real    0m2.543s
> user    0m0.310s
> sys     0m0.120s
> 
> This is on a 17 inch Powerbook (1.67 GHz G4), running Mac OS X Panther.

What does "time python -c 'pass'" and "time python -S -c 'pass'" report on
your system?

Also, are there .pyc files next to the .py files in your bzr install?
Sometimes permission problems prevent .pyc files from being created.

-Andrew.