On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 October 2012 21:58, <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > > > Zitat von Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com>: > > > > > >> To be clear - I'm *not* suggesting Cython become part of the required > >> build > >> toolchain. But *if* the Cython-compiled extensions prove to be > >> significantly faster I'm thinking maybe it could become a semi-supported > >> option (e.g. a HOWTO with the caveat "it worked on this particular > >> system"). > > > > > > This should compare to zipping the standard library, which has been a > > supported > > configuration for a long time, and also avoids many stat calls. > > Interestingly, I just did a quick test of this: This is on my Windows > 7 PC, running under Powershell. D:\Apps\Python33 is a standard > installation, whereas D:\Dev\P33 has a zipped stdlib: > > PS 22:02 D:\Data > >foreach ($i in 1..10) { measure-command { D:\Apps\Python33\python.exe -c > "raise SystemExit" } | % { $_.TotalSeconds } } > 0.0737877 > 0.1014695 > 0.0950326 > 0.0910734 > 0.0689548 > 0.084994 > 0.0772204 > 0.0958197 > 0.0696385 > 0.0806066 > PS 22:03 D:\Data > >foreach ($i in 1..10) { measure-command { D:\Dev\P33\python.exe -c "raise > SystemExit" } | % { $_.TotalSeconds } } > 0.1922151 > 0.1879894 > 0.2455766 > 0.2842425 > 0.1937161 > 0.2168928 > 0.2441508 > 0.1860206 > 0.1866409 > 0.1897004 > > Looks like the normal configuration is over twice as fast as the zipped > one... > Are both debug builds (asking because of the path names)? CPython is now significantly slower in a debug build thanks to the overhead it adds to any Python code executing, which means importlib runs much slower.
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