On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:42, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:24:21 -0500 > Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > IOW you want the sys.modules case fast, which I will never be able to > match > > compared to C code since that is pure execution with no I/O. > > Why wouldn't continue using C code for that? It's trivial (just a dict > lookup). > Sure, but it's all the code between the function call and hitting sys.modules which would also need to get shoved into the C code. As I said, I have not tried to optimize anything yet (and unfortunately a lot of the upfront costs are over stupid things like checking if __import__ is being called with a string for the module name).
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