[Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 07:33:26 EST 2016

On 5 February 2016 at 15:05, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

(I'm not even sure if this suggestion makes sense, since I'm not really sure what "freezing" the stdlib entails. Is it documented anywhere?)

It's not particularly well documented - most of the docs you'll find are about freeze utilities that don't explain how they work, or the FrozenImporter, which doesn't explain how to create a frozen module and link it into your Python executable.

Your approach of thinking of a frozen module as a generated .pyc file that has been converted to a builtin module is a pretty good working model, though. (It isn't entirely accurate, but the discrepancies are sufficiently arcane that they aren't going to matter in any case that doesn't involve specifically poking around at the import related attributes).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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