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

[Daniel Holth]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le 15/04/2014 19:09, Daniel Holth a écrit :
>
>> In case you were wondering, I'm using Ubuntu's "2.7.5+" and "3.3.2+".
>>
>> My feeling has long been that the speed of getting at the "--help"
>> option or any initial user feedback from Mercurial or git is a big
>> driver in perceived speed as opposed to how long the entire operation
>> might take. But for me any initial speed improvements from git are
>> fully offset by the feeling of irritation afterwards. /troll
>>
>> For me Python's startup time (warm) takes about 1/4 of the hg startup
>> time in the worst case. I expect to both notice and appreciate any
>> speedups and encourage all optimizers to optimize.
>
>
> Well, if we optimize 11% out of that 1/4, I don't expect you to notice the
> speedup at all ;-)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

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