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Fri Apr 10 16:56:20 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/088599.html

Robert Collins wrote:

> Certainly, import time is part of it:
> robertc at lifeless-64:~$ python -m timeit -s 'import sys;  import
> bzrlib.errors' "del sys.modules['bzrlib.errors']; import bzrlib.errors"
> 10 loops, best of 3: 18.7 msec per loop
> 
> (errors.py is 3027 lines long with 347 exception classes).
> 
> We've also looked lower - python does a lot of stat operations search
> for imports and determining if the pyc is up to date; these appear to
> only really matter on cold-cache imports (but they matter a lot then);
> in hot-cache situations they are insignificant.
> 
Tarek, Georg, and I talked about a way to do both multi-version and
speedup of this exact problem with import in the future at pycon.  I had
to leave before the hackfest got started, though, so I don't know where
the idea went from there.  Tarek, did this idea progress any?

-Toshio

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