Feb. 7, 2010
7:05 p.m.
Barry Warsaw <barry <at> python.org> writes:
exarkun <at> boson:~$ python -m timeit -s 'from os import getcwd' 'getcwd()' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.02 usec per loop
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I'd like to see the effect on command line scripts that are run often and then exit, e.g. Bazaar or Mercurial. Start up time due to import overhead seems to be a constant battle for those types of projects.
If os.getcwd() is only called once when "normalizing" sys.path, and if it just takes one microsecond, I don't really see the point. :-) Antoine.