Slow startup?

[Jo Vermeulen]

Hello,

I tried bzr (the development tree) and it felt pretty slow. Any ideas 
what may cause this? It seems there is a lot of processing done each 
time at startup.

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.

Please note I don't want to start the traditional "Python is slow, use 
C" discussion :-) I like Python very much. But I'm just wondering if 
the slowness has something to do with my system, and what is causing 
it.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

-- 
Jo Vermeulen <jo at lumumba.luc.ac.be>
http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jo/