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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
11 Jul 2003 09:50:04 -0400

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:32, Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:

Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes: =20 > Did anyone ever check in fixes for that? =20 Yes, MAL checked in a patch, to remove re usage in encodings/init.py. Nobody ever verified whether this had any impact - most likely the impact was not significant.

It looks like Python 2.2.3 and 2.3 both import re.

The primary difference that I see between the two is that 2.3 imports the warnings module, which entails 7 more imports.

Jeremy