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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sun Jan 31 13:43:20 EST 2016

On 30.01.2016 20:15, Steve Dower wrote:

Brett tried freezing the entire stdlib at one point (as we do for parts of importlib) and reported no significant improvement. Since that rules out code compilation as well as the OS calls, it'd seem the priority is to execute less code on startup.

Details of that work were posted to python-dev about twelve months ago, IIRC. Maybe a little longer.

Freezing the entire stdlib does improve the startup time, simply because it removes stat calls, which dominate the startup time at least on Unix.

It also allows sharing the stdlib byte code in memory, since it gets stored in static C structs which the OS will happily mmap into multiple processes for you without any additional effort.

Our eGenix PyRun does exactly that. Even though the original motivation is a different one, the gained improvement in startup time is a nice side effect:

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Aside: The encodings don't really make much difference here. The dictionaries aren't all that big, so generating them on the fly doesn't really create much overhead. The trade off in terms of maintainability/speed definitely leans toward maintainability. For the larger encoding tables we already have C implementations with appropriate data structures to make lookup speed vs. storage needs efficient.

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-----Original Message----- From: "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com> Sent: ‎1/‎30/‎2016 10:22 To: "python-dev at python.org" <python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas On 30.01.16 18:31, Steve Dower wrote: On 30Jan2016 0645, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

$ ./python -m timeit -s "import codecs; from encodings.cp437 import decodingtable" -- "codecs.charmapbuild(decodingtable)" 100000 loops, best of 3: 4.36 usec per loop

Getting rid from charmapbuild() would save you at most 4.4 microseconds per encoding. 0.0005 seconds if you have imported all standard encodings! Just as happy to be proven wrong. Perhaps I misinterpreted my original profiling and then, embarrassingly, ran with the result for a long time without retesting. AFAIK the most time is spent in system calls like stat or open. Archiving the stdlib into the ZIP file and using zipimport can decrease Python startup time (perhaps there is an open issue about this).

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