[IPython-dev] iptest on 0.11.alpha1.git

[Thomas Spura]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:32:20 -0700
Fernando Perez wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Thomas Spura
> <tomspur at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > The commit hash will be noted in the version at the startup
> > automatically after this commit:
> > http://github.com/tomspur/ipython/commit/e2e56f2917d941051e99a893f3e26989b78aaa53
> >
> > And the branch name will be there after this commit:
> > http://github.com/tomspur/ipython/commit/7b5f6ed4abd9308b9fc2a2071a756b0aba3a680b
> >
> 
> Mmh, actually the more I think about this, the more reluctant I am to
> have anything that opens a subprocess or imports a whole repo-reading
> module just to get a version string.  Operations like that have an
> impact on startup time, and IPython is arleady slow enough to start up
> as it is.
> 
> We should think carefully about how to get that information in the
> absolutely fastest, most static way possible in all cases.  Recording
> it in a file with post-commit hooks or something like the old
> update-revno tool we had for bzr, but NOT with dynamic code run at
> initialization time.

I rewrote the update-revno so that it does the right thing with git
now: Replace branch name and revision number with the git-branch and
git-revision. Unfortunately I didn't found yet a good git command to
create an archive with the not yet commited changes...

> I really want our startup time to go down, not up.  A long time ago I
> had a regular habit of starting up plain python and then ipython, to
> compare the difference.   It used to be nearly undetectable, now it's
> noticeable, and doing this kind of repo-spelunking at startup time
> isn't going to help matters.

Hmm, yes, it would be great to have a good startup time, but that patch
does is make worse when running in development mode. When releasing a
version all that won't get even touched...

I could try to get the development startup time down too, but I think,
it's not that important to think about maybe half a second more in
development startup.
It would be far better to set the release flag and compare that timing,
isn't it?

	Thomas