On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 7:08 PM Gregory Szorc
wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies, everyone! I'll reply to a few comments
> individually. But I first wanted to address the common theme around
> zipimport.
>
> First, one idea that nobody mentioned (and came to me after reading the
> replies) was
Thanks for all the replies, everyone! I'll reply to a few comments
individually. But I first wanted to address the common theme around
zipimport.
First, one idea that nobody mentioned (and came to me after reading the
replies) was to possibly leverage zipimport for freezing the standard
library
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 5:32 AM Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sept 2021 at 10:29, Simon Cross
> wrote:
> > I think adding a meta path importer that reads from a standard
> > optimized format could be a great addition.
>
> I think the biggest open question would be "what benefits does this
> have
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 10:46 PM Gregory Szorc wrote:
> Over in https://bugs.python.org/issue45020 there is some exciting work around
> expanding the use of the frozen importer to speed up Python interpreter
> startup. I wholeheartedly support the effort and don't want to discourage
> progress
On Fri, 3 Sept 2021 at 10:29, Simon Cross wrote:
>
> Hi Gregory,
>
> I think adding a meta path importer that reads from a standard
> optimized format could be a great addition.
I think the biggest open question would be "what benefits does this
have over the existing zipimport?" Maybe it could
Hi Gregory,
I think adding a meta path importer that reads from a standard
optimized format could be a great addition.
As you mentioned in your email, this is a big detour from the current
start-up performance work, so I think practically the people working
on performance are unlikely to take a
My quick reaction was somewhat different - it would be a great idea, but
it’s entirely possible to implement this outside the stdlib as a 3rd party
module. So the fact that no-one has yet done so means there’s less general
interest than the OP is suggesting.
And from my experience, the reason for
Quick reaction: This feels like a bait and switch to me. Also, there are
many advantages to using a standard format like zip (many formats are
really zip with some conventions). Finally, the bytecode format you are
using is “marshal”, and is fully portable — as is zip.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at
