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

[Daniel Holth]

IIRC it is no longer the case that ZIP imports (involving only one
file for a lot of modules) are much faster than regular FS imports?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps not so much "a very real advantage" as "less of a
> distraction". It's still significantly slower than 2.7.  :)
>
> -eric
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