Does py2app improves speed?

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Ricardo Mansilla
<rick.mansilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone..
> My question is exactly as in the subject of This Mail.
> I have made a Python  script which is to slow and i have heard (and common sense also suggest) that if you use some libraries to "frozen" the script the performance improves substantially. So I need to know; is This a myth or it is a fact?
> Thanks in advance for your time.

I would not expect any speedup.  You might see some difference in
loading times, but the actual program being run is still just the
Python interpreter running your script, and that's not going to run
any faster.

I had a coworker who wrapped up one of his applications with py2exe /
pyInstaller on the theory that since his program would be run from a
network share, it would be faster to load a single exe over the
network than a bunch of .pyc files plus the files needed to run the
interpreter.  I can't tell any difference, though.

Cheers,
Ian