[Python-Dev] Python startup time

[David Mertz]

I would guess that Windows users don't tend to run lots of command line
tools where startup time dominates, as *nix users do.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jul 21, 2017, at 01:25 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
> >That is what Emacs does, and it causes them a lot of trouble. They're
> >trying to move away from it at the moment, but the direction is not yet
> >clear. The keyword is "unexec", and it wrecks havoc with malloc.
>
> Emacs has been unexec'ing for as long as I can remember (which is longer
> than
> I can remember Python :).  I know that it's been problematic and there have
> been many efforts over the years to replace it, but I think it's been a
> fairly
> successful technique in practice, at least on platforms that support it.
> That's another problem with the approach of course; it's not universally
> possible to implement.
>
> -Barry
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