Show HN: Speedrunner – Faster Startup: Python, Ruby, PHP and Node CLI Tools

Category: devtools

Tags: cli, performance, preloading, interpreter, benchmarking

Score: 8.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 9, Utility: 7)

Speedrunner is a daemon-based preloader that forks a warm interpreter per call to eliminate Python/Ruby/PHP/Node startup overhead for CLI tools, yielding 3-10x speedups with identical output. It supports arbitrary tools with no per-tool setup, falls back safely to native execution, and ships extensive benchmark evidence and rigorous multi-platform testing.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, cli power users, polyglot developers

Repository: https://github.com/anthonyGosme/speedrunner · Python · Apache-2.0 · 1 stars

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