[Python-Dev] Python startup time? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 10 06:26:05 CEST 2004


Aahz wrote:

I just remembered that shortly before release of Python 2.3 there was a big fuss about the startup time. Has anyone revisited the issue since then?

As Nick says, we looked at it at PyCon. I found that a lot of calls to string interning are made, and changed the marshal format to share interned strings, instead of duplicating them. This causes good savings in disk space; whether it also saves startup time significantly is hard to prove.

Regards, Martin



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