<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@basus" class="u-url mention">@<span>basus</span></a></span><br />The major limitation for making any of this faster than the lowest numbers there is that (a) the system is mostly written in Scheme/Racket (unlike Python or JS) so there's a bunch of code to load that's not in the binary and (b) that code goes in the heap, not in the code segment of an ELF file, so loading it isn't free as it is with mmap() for C code. </p><p>I can understand that 200 ms is a lot for eg an interactive shell command, but it's not that big otherwise.</p>
