On Mar 24, 2011, at 4:06 AM, bruce bushby wrote: > I have previously asked this question in python-list, however I think it > belongs here.
As the saying goes, this list is for development of python, not with python. So it would be appropriate to make a suggestion as to some direction for Python's development that would improve your situation. That said, at one point I had similar issues, and I also thought that Python should have had some kind of "embedded mode" compilation options, and I never found anything. > I'm running python 2.7.1 on an embedded Linux board and noticed it takes 1.8 > seconds to execute the most simple "Hello World" script. You will notice that very, very early on in the process (not quite the first thing, but almost), there is a stat for python27.zip. You want to put absolutely everything in the standard library into that archive, and to put your shared objects into /usr/lib/python2.7/ with names like 'foo.so' (not 'foomodule.so', as that's statted second). When I was working with embedded python, that was pretty much the whole story: 2 zip files (one for the stdlib, one for everything else in my application), one directory for extension modules. Finally, I hacked site.py to set sys.path to just those three entries, so that even failed imports would not stat too many non-existent files. I think it would be a great idea to have a configure flag that instructed python to be pre-built this way, but I don't work with embedded pythons these days, so I'm not likely to do it :).
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