Prelink/suspend applications?

[Tyson Sawyer]

I have some applications that use lots of python and dynamic loading.
The load/link stage of startup takes a rather long time.  The
application is heavily built around dynamic loading of libraries and
so I don't think that 'prelink' will work for us.

Are there any tools that might allows us to something like start up a
python shell, load/link the core libraries and modules, and then
suspend it to disk where we could then launch multiple instances of
it?  What other strategies might exist to speed up application start?

Thanks!
Ty

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Tyson D Sawyer

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