RetroSearch Browse

Tue Apr 15 17:19:32 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134027.html

IIRC it is no longer the case that ZIP imports (involving only one
file for a lot of modules) are much faster than regular FS imports?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Specific use-case that I can see: Mercurial. In a git vs hg shoot-out,
>> git will usually win on performance, and hg is using Py2; migrating hg
>> to Py3 will (if I understand the above figures correctly) widen that
>> gap, so any improvement done to startup performance will give a very
>> real advantage.
>
> Perhaps not so much "a very real advantage" as "less of a
> distraction". It's still significantly slower than 2.7.  :)
>
> -eric
> _______________________________________________
> Python-Dev mailing list
> Python-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
> Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dholth%40gmail.com

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134027.html below:

[Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup