[Python-Dev] 2.3 startup speed? (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:34:19 +0200


Skip Montanaro wrote:

Martin> Yes, MAL checked in a patch, to remove re usage in Martin> encodings/init.py. Nobody ever verified whether this had any Martin> impact - most likely the impact was not significant.

I thought that part of the problem was continued attempts to look for modules in the usually non-existent python23.zip. I believe Just said something about the current structure requiring it to remain in sys.path even if it doesn't exist.

Yes. I was hoping to find the time to work on the new import mechanism before b1, and then before b2, but didn't. While it's clear that a non-existing zip file on sys.path has some effect, I'm not at all convinced it's the most significant source of the startup slowdown since 2.2. It would be great to know to what extent MAL's patch helped.

Just