15 Aug
2008
15 Aug
'08
6:19 p.m.
2008/8/15 Andrew Dalke dalke@dalkescientific.com:
I don't think it's enough. I don't like environmental variable tricks like that. My tests suggest: current SVN: 0.12 seconds my patch: 0.10 seconds removing some top-level imports: 0.09 seconds my patch and removing some additional top-level imports: 0.08 seconds (this is a guess)
There are two different concerns being addressed here: ease of use and load time. I am not sure the two can be optimised simultaneously. On the other hand, if we had two public APIs for importing (similar to matplotlib's pylab vs. pyplot), we could satisfy both parties, without placing too much of a burden upon developers.
Stéfan