<p><pre><code>  $ strace txr -e &#x27;(put-line &quot;hello&quot;)&#x27; 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt; &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null | wc -l
  70
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Very similar.<p>Obviously there are those who care about reasonable startup times and, ... others. :)<p>By the way, TXR supports setuid operation, and so it makes a few extra syscalls to check its security situation (am I running setuid? setgid?)