[Python-Dev] Impact of Namedtuple on startup time

[Victor Stinner]

2017-07-17 16:56 GMT+02:00 Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com>:
> My experience inside Canonical is that golang stole a lot of "codebase
> share" from Python, and (others and mine) talks hit two walls, mainly:
> one is memory consumption, and the other is startup time.
>
> So yes, startup time is important for user-faced scripts and services.

Removing the _source attribute would allow to:

(1) Reduce the memory consumption

http://bugs.python.org/issue19640#msg213949

(2) Pyhon startup up time

https://bugs.python.org/issue28638#msg280277

Victor