OTOH I was a salaried Spectrum games programmer back in the 1980s working for one of the major companies.
Interesting - did you work on some titles one might have played back in the day?
Also, Ibelieve the label on it is just the last moderation to be applied, so a +4, informative could become a +3, troll with a single troll moderation.
Actually, I don't think that's the case. I've often modded something as interesting and seen it go from +3 undefined to +4 insightful (and vice versa).
Other things you talked about don't have anything to do with performance, so you haven't talked about use-cases in plural but only about the small amount of startup time difference.
Both python and ruby can outperform it in at least some situations
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True, if you hardcode C:\something or
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