[Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 15/04/2014 17:42, Daniel Holth a écrit :
> I find Python's startup time to be very sluggish. I wish it was less
> than 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds) including running hg, which is the
> common threshold for "instant". On my machine 'python -c ""' takes
> about 0.05 seconds but 'python3 -c ""' takes 0.125 seconds.

Please quote exact versions. Different versions of Python 3 will have 
different startup characteristics.

Regards

Antoine.