[Python-Dev] Python startup time?

[Nick Bastin]

On Aug 9, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Aahz wrote:

> I just remembered that shortly before release of Python 2.3 there was a
> big fuss about the startup time.  Has anyone revisited the issue since
> then?

Experience from pycon sprint revealed several things to me:

1) 2.3 startup is faster than 2.2 if you don't import site
2) 2.2 didn't really import anything on startup, so it was always fast
3) Never benchmark without installing, as performance is really bad in 
CVS (distutils)

If people who really care about startup time don't need site, then 
they're good.  If they do, then the real slowdown comes from warnings 
and linecache, if I recall correctly.

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Nick