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On 27/09/2021 18:38, Patrick Reader wrote: > How about checking each non-frozen module's hash and/or and comparing it to > that of the frozen module? Would that defeat the performance improvement of > freezing? Is it just a terrible idea? > > On 27/09/2021 17:51, Eric Snow wrote: >> We've frozen most of the stdlib modules imported during "python -c >> pass" [1][2], to make startup a bit faster. Import of those modules >> is controlled by "-X frozen_modules=[on|off]". Currently it defaults >> to "off" but we'd like to default to "on". The blocker is the impact >> on contributors. I expect many will make changes to a stdlib module >> and then puzzle over why those changes aren't getting used. That's an >> annoyance we can avoid, which is the point of this thread. >> >> Possible solutions: >> >> 1. always default to "on" (the annoyance for contributors isn't big enough?) >> 2. default to "on" if it's a PGO build (and "off" otherwise) >> 3. default to "on" unless running from the source tree >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/6ALEB4NCYS32EOLR5PT25GYBDN7ZOYEO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
