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		AlchemistCamp on Jan 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Shell Language in Lisp It's about the same as JavaScript: `> time ruby hello.rb Hello, world! ruby hello.rb 0.11s user 0.13s system 81% cpu 0.297 total > time node hello.js Hello, world! node hello.js 0.10s user 0.16s system 84% cpu 0.307 total`

pdimitar on Jan 30, 2021 [–]

Yeah, 100-200ms are quite fine in fact.

Maybe I got spoiled by Rust and OCaml that start in the matter of 3-8ms. :D But these Ruby and Node startup times are good.

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