On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:56, Collin Winter <collinwin...@google.com> wrote: > Agreed. We are actively working to improve the startup time penalty. > We're interested in getting guidance from the CPython community as to > what kind of a startup slow down would be sufficient in exchange for > greater runtime performance.
For some apps (like Mercurial, which I happen to sometimes hack on), increased startup time really sucks. We already have our demandimport code (I believe bzr has something similar) to try and delay imports, to prevent us spending time on imports we don't need. Maybe it would be possible to do something like that in u-s? It could possibly also keep track of the thorny issues, like imports where there's an except ImportError that can do fallbacks. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ 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
