[Python-Dev] Store startup modules as C structures for 20%+ startup speed improvement?

[Larry Hastings]

On 09/14/2018 02:54 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On 2018-09-14, Larry Hastings wrote:
> [...]
>> improvement 0.21242667903482038 %
> I assume that should be 21.2 % othewise I recommend you abandon the
> idea. ;-P

Yeah, that thing you said.


> I wonder how much of the speedup relies on putting it in the data
> segment (i.e. using linker/loader to essentially handle the
> unmarshal).  What if you had a new marshal format that only needed a
> light 2nd pass in order to fix up the data loaded from disk?

Some experimentation would be in order.  I can suggest that, based on 
conversation from Carl, that adding the stat calls back in costs you 
half the startup.  So any mechanism where we're talking to the disk _at 
all_ simply isn't going to be as fast.


//arry/
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