[Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 15.04.2014 09:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In my work environment (Python 2.7.2, all the heavy lifting done in
>>> C++), startup costs are dominated by dynamic linking of all our C++
>>> libraries and their Boost wrappers:
>>
>>
>> Sure, but not everyone uses Boost or has long running processes where
>> startup time is minuscule compared to the total execution time.
>>
> 
> Specific use-case that I can see: Mercurial. In a git vs hg shoot-out,
> git will usually win on performance, and hg is using Py2; migrating hg
> to Py3 will (if I understand the above figures correctly) widen that
> gap, so any improvement done to startup performance will give a very
> real advantage.

You might want to have a look at this project:

http://pyrun.org/

It's currently Python 2 only, but we'll try to get it to work
with Python 3.4 as well, now that freeze.py and some other bits
have been fixed to make it work again.

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