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

David Mertz mertz at gnosis.cx
Fri Jul 21 18:53:32 EDT 2017

I would guess that Windows users don't tend to run lots of command line tools where startup time dominates, as *nix users do.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Jul 21, 2017, at 01:25 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

>That is what Emacs does, and it causes them a lot of trouble. They're >trying to move away from it at the moment, but the direction is not yet >clear. The keyword is "unexec", and it wrecks havoc with malloc. Emacs has been unexec'ing for as long as I can remember (which is longer than I can remember Python :). I know that it's been problematic and there have been many efforts over the years to replace it, but I think it's been a fairly successful technique in practice, at least on platforms that support it. That's another problem with the approach of course; it's not universally possible to implement. -Barry

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