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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org> wrote:

(And, yes, I'm zipping up the stdlib for Python 2.7 at Google, to reduce the impact on the aforementioned million of machines :)

You might want to consider instead backporting the importlib caching facility, since it provides some of the zipimport benefits for plain old, non-zipped modules. Actually, a caching-only import hook that operated that way wouldn't even need the whole of importlib, just a wrapper over the standard C import that skips the unnecessary filesystem accesses.