[Python-Dev] Python startup time

[Ryan Gonzalez]

I'm hardly an expert, but AFAIK CPython's start-up issues are more due to a 
mix of architectural issues and the fact that it's hard to optimize imports 
while maintaining backwards compatibility with Python's dynamism.

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On May 3, 2018 1:37:57 AM Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:

> On 5/2/2018 8:56 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
>> Nobody in the project is seriously talking about a complete rewrite in
>> Rust. Contributors to the project have varying opinions on how
>> aggressively Rust should be utilized. People who contribute to the C
>> code, low-level primitives (like storage, deltas, etc), and those who
>> care about performance tend to want more Rust. One thing we almost
>> universally agree on is that we want to rewrite all of Mercurial's C
>> code in Rust. I anticipate that figuring out the balance between Rust
>> and Python in Mercurial will be an ongoing conversation/process for
>> the next few years.
> Have you considered simply rewriting CPython in Rust?
>
> And yes, the 4th word in that question was intended to produce peals of
> shocked laughter. But why Rust? Why not Go? http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724
>
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