On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 22:16, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> wrote: > >> (And, yes, I'm zipping up the stdlib for Python 2.7 at Google, to reduce >> the impact on the aforementioned million of machines :) >> > > You might want to consider instead backporting the importlib caching > facility, since it provides some of the zipimport benefits for plain old, > non-zipped modules. Actually, a caching-only import hook that operated > that way wouldn't even need the whole of importlib, just a wrapper over the > standard C import that skips the unnecessary filesystem accesses. > Thanks for the suggestions (Antoine too), but that's not really the topic I want to discuss here (but if you guys move to Google I'll happily discuss all the stuff we have to deal with.) The questions is really whether Python wants to actually support zipped stdlibs or not. -- Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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