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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 17.04.14 20:47, schrieb Brett Cannon:
> Because people keep bringing it up, below is the results of hacking up
> the interpreter to include a sys.path entry for ./python35.zip instead
> of hard-coding to /usr/lib/python35.zip and simply zipped up Lib/
> recursively. TL;DR, zipimport performance no longer measures up
> (probably because of stat caching and such that importlib introduced).
> 
> ### normal_startup ###
> 
> Min: 0.510211 -> 2.667958: 5.23x slower
> 

Not sure how to interpret this: what is 5.23x slower than what?

Regards,
Martin