ab·surd·li

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