[Python-ideas] PEP 432: Simplifying the CPython startup sequence

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Performance
> -----------
>
> CPython is used heavily to run short scripts where the runtime is dominated
> by the interpreter initialisation time. Any changes to the startup sequence
> should minimise their impact on the startup overhead. (Given that the
> overhead is dominated by IO operations, this is not currently expected to
> cause any significant problems).
>
>
I'd like to just stress the performance issue. It seems python3.3 takes 30%
more time to start vs 2.7 on my ubuntu.

Yuval
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