__pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

[Stefan Behnel]

Terry Reedy, 18.01.2011 04:39:
> Saving module code to the
> filesystem speeds startup, which most find slow as it is.

I've been using Jython recently, which, in addition to the huge JVM startup 
time, must also fire up the Jython runtime before actually doing anything 
useful.

I must say that I never found CPython's startup time to be slow, quite the 
contrary.

Stefan