Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > unfortunately, this standard seem to result in generic "spamtools" modules > > into which people throw everything that's even remotely related to "spam", > > followed by complaints about bloat and performance from users, followed by > > various more or less stupid attempts to implement lazy loading of hidden in- > > ternal modules, followed by more complaints from users who no longer has > > a clear view of what's really going on in there... > > BTW, what's the performance problem in importing unnecessary stuff > (assuming pyc files are already generated) ?
larger modules can easily take 0.1-0.2 seconds to import (at least if they use enough external dependencies). that may not be a lot of time in itself, but it can result in several seconds extra startup time for a larger program. importing unneeded modules also add to the process size, of course. you don't need to import too many modules to gobble up a couple of megabytes... </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
