[Python-Dev] Python startup optimization: script vs. service (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Mon Oct 2 10:48:37 EDT 2017

On 2017-10-02 14:05, George King wrote:

I’m new to this issue, but curious: could the long-running server mitigate lazy loading problems simply by explicitly importing the deferred modules, e.g. at the top of main.py? It would require some performance tracing or other analysis to figure out what needed to be imported, but this might be a very easy way to win back response times for demanding applications. Conversely, small scripts currently have no recourse.

That approach could work, but I think that it is the wrong approach. I'd rather keep Python optimized for long-running processes and introduce a new mode / option to optimize for short-running scripts.

Christian

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