Re: Ruby, Python programs are unusually slow

2014-06-11 Thread Kaashif Hymabaccus
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 08:42:14PM +0200, Gregor Best wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 05:52:12PM +0100, Kaashif Hymabaccus wrote: > > [...] > > I know this isn't a problem with my hardware (a ThinkPad T61) being > > slow, > > [...] > > Definitely, my R61 starts a Python HTTP server almost instant

Re: Ruby, Python programs are unusually slow

2014-06-11 Thread Gregor Best
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 05:52:12PM +0100, Kaashif Hymabaccus wrote: > [...] > I know this isn't a problem with my hardware (a ThinkPad T61) being > slow, > [...] Definitely, my R61 starts a Python HTTP server almost instantly. > Seeing as the problem > is worst with programs that access the netwo

Ruby, Python programs are unusually slow

2014-06-11 Thread Kaashif Hymabaccus
When I start Python and Ruby programs (and probably others too), they are very, very slow to do anything and do not respond to SIGINT or SIGTERM. For example, when I run "rackup" in an almost bare Rack project (in Ruby), I have to wait for about 10 minutes before the web server starts. The same is