On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> As for 2), startup time is actually a very important consideration > nowadays, both for small scripts *and* for interactive use with the > now very wide-spread use of Jupyter Notebooks. A 1 ms. cost when > importing a single module can translate into a large slowdown when your > library imports (directly or indirectly) hundreds of modules, many of > which may create their own namedtuple classes. My experience inside Canonical is that golang stole a lot of "codebase share" from Python, and (others and mine) talks hit two walls, mainly: one is memory consumption, and the other is startup time. So yes, startup time is important for user-faced scripts and services. Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ Twitter: @facundobatista _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
