cold:

[illuminati pants (kwlzn/engine/closed_loop_runner)]$ time ./pants list 3rdparty:: > /dev/null

real  0m2.186s
user  0m0.214s
sys   0m0.094s

warm:

[illuminati pants (kwlzn/engine/closed_loop_runner)]$ time ./pants list 3rdparty:: > /dev/null

real  0m0.658s
user  0m0.217s
sys   0m0.093s

warm + c-client:

[illuminati hammerpants]$ time NAILGUN_PORT=`cat ~/dev/pants/.pids/pantsd/socket_pailgun` ./pants list 3rdparty:: > /dev/null

real  0m0.472s
user  0m0.004s
sys   0m0.011s