On 15.04.2014 09:45, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> In my work environment (Python 2.7.2, all the heavy lifting done in >>> C++), startup costs are dominated by dynamic linking of all our C++ >>> libraries and their Boost wrappers: >> >> >> Sure, but not everyone uses Boost or has long running processes where >> startup time is minuscule compared to the total execution time. >> > > Specific use-case that I can see: Mercurial. In a git vs hg shoot-out, > git will usually win on performance, and hg is using Py2; migrating hg > to Py3 will (if I understand the above figures correctly) widen that > gap, so any improvement done to startup performance will give a very > real advantage.
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