> 1. Is there anything I can do at compile time to tell Python these files > don't exist and avoid trying to open them?
If you disable dynamic loading of extension modules, the number of stat calls will go down significantly. > 2. Is it possible to make python first try and open the ".pyc" and only > then look for ".py" ? If you then further reduce sys.path, and zip up the standard library .pyc files, you get further reductions. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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