What is it doing before it is doing something?
$ time perl -e ' ' real 0m0.004s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.002s $ time ruby -e ' ' real 0m0.151s user 0m0.124s sys 0m0.025s $ time echo '' | python real 0m0.017s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.008s
$ time perl -e ' ' real 0m0.004s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.002s $ time ruby -e ' ' real 0m0.151s user 0m0.124s sys 0m0.025s $ time echo '' | python real 0m0.017s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.008s