[Python-Dev] Store startup modules as C structures for 20%+ startup speed improvement? (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas-python at arctrix.com
Tue Sep 18 18:00:03 EDT 2018

On 2018-09-18, Carl Shapiro wrote:

How might people feel about using the linker to bundle a list of pre-loaded modules into a single-file executable?

The users of Python are pretty diverse so it depends on who you ask. Some would like a giant executable that includes everything they need (so of like the Go approach). Other people want an executable that has just importlib inside it and then mix-and-match different shared libs for their different purposes. Some will not want work "old school" and load from separate .py or .pyc files.

I see no reason why we can't support all these options.

Regards,

Neil

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