Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > While Python's general speed has gone up, its startup speed has slowed > down! Hear hear! I always thought you didn't care about startup time at all :-) > I have no time to investigate the cause right now, although I have a > suspicion that the problem might be in loading too much of the > encoding framework at start time (I recall Marc-Andre and Martin > debating this earlier). That would be easy to determine: Just disable the block #if defined(Py_USING_UNICODE) && defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H) && defined(CODESET) in pythonrun.c, and see whether it changes anything. To my knowledge, this is the only cause of loading encodings during startup on Unix. Regards, Martin
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