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

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>

Here's the test I used https://gist.github.com/4389657
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