[cma]

With a laptop 7735HS, using WSL2, I get 15ms for the interpreter to start and exit without any imports.

[icarito]

I've got a i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz.

You triggered my curiosity. The chat window takes consistently 2.28s to start. The python interpreter takes roughly 30ms to start. I'll be doing some profiling.