[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:26, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
>
>
> > IOW you want the sys.modules case fast, which I will never be able to
> match
> compared to C code since that is pure execution with no I/O.
> >
>
>
> Sure you can: have a really fast Python VM.
>
> Constructive: if you can run this code under PyPy it'd be easy to just:
>
> $ pypy -mtimeit "import struct"
> $ pypy -mtimeit -s "import importlib" "importlib.import_module('struct')"
>
> Or whatever the right API is.


I'm not worried about PyPy. =) I assume you will just  flat-out use
importlib regardless of what happens with CPython since it is/will be fully
compatible and is already written for you.
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