[Python-Dev] import too slow on NFS based systems

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:08:09 +0300
Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > There is such a thing in Python 3.3, although some stat() calls are
> > still necessary to know whether the directory caches are fresh.
> > Can you give it a try and provide some feedback?
> 
> WOW!
> with a sample python program:
> 
> in 2.7 there are:
> 	stats	open
> 	2736	9037
> in 3.3
> 	288	57
> 
> now I have to fix my 2.7 to work with 3.3 :-)
> 
> any chance that this can be backported to 2.7?

Not a chance. It is all based on using importlib as the default import
mechanism, and that's a gory piece of work that we wouldn't port in a
bugfix release.

Regards

Antoine.