[Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library.

[PJ Eby]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

> (And, yes, I'm zipping up the stdlib for Python 2.7 at Google, to reduce
> the impact on the aforementioned million of machines :)
>

You might want to consider instead backporting the importlib caching
facility, since it provides some of the zipimport benefits for plain old,
non-zipped modules.  Actually, a caching-only import hook that operated
that way wouldn't even need the whole of importlib, just a wrapper over the
standard C import that skips the unnecessary filesystem accesses.
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