miniblog.

It's strange how AOT compilers usually have different modes for optimising time or space usage, but JITs rarely have modes like "prefer fast startup". The vast majority of JITs seem to focus on runtime of hot code after warming up.

Impressive growth in the Indian tech startup scene:

Python and JS can both execute code when loading libraries (`import foo` and `require('foo')` respectively). Yet the Python CLI apps I've seen have to do much more work to ensure good startup performance (e.g. `myapp --help` not being slow). I'm not sure why.