STINNER Victor added the comment: Possible options: > 3. avoid the use of re in site.py venv
That would be a tiny but nice enhancement. re is a commonly used module. I would prefer to not make its import time slower. Python 3 startup is already something like 3x slower than Python 2. Please don't make it even slower :-( We worked on optimizing Python 3 startup time. > 2. find a way to mitigate the performance impact of importing re and enum > (perhaps making them builtins in Setup.dist?) I reverted the change, because Guido and Ethan seem to be in favor of a revert, and I don't expect any simple solution for this issue. I'm quite sure that importing enum.py is slow. Optimizing enum.py import time is a large task. Another option to explore is to delay the creation/instanciation of the re flags, something like lazy module import... but at the module attribute level :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28637> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
