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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 April 2014 12:25, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 14.04.14 23:51, schrieb Brett Cannon:
>> It was realized during PyCon that since we are freezing importlib we
>> could now consider freezing all the modules to cut out having to stat or
>> read them from disk.
> [...]
>> Thoughts?
>
> They still get read from disk, except that it is the operating system
> that does the reading. So what you really save is the access to many
> tiny files; something that can also be achieved with the zipfile import.
> So I wonder how your all-frozen binary compares to a standard binary
> with a python35.zip.
>
> If it is comparable, I'd rather extend on that route, i.e. promote
> putting the standard library into a zip file in the default
> installation, and also find a way where (say) /usr/bin/hg could
> conveniently specify a zip file that will contain the Mercurial
> byte code. For example, we could support a -Z option for the interpreter
> which would allow to append a zip file to a script that gets put on
> sys.path.

Has anyone tried running mercurial as a zipfile with __main__.py and a
prepended shebang line rather than as a collection of independent
files?

Cheers,
Nick.

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