[Python-Dev] Zipping the standard library. (original) (raw)

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Mar 11 07:16:12 CET 2012


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters <thomas at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120311/09664b40/attachment.html>



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