On 16 April 2014 12:25, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Am 14.04.14 23:51, schrieb Brett Cannon: >> It was realized during PyCon that since we are freezing importlib we >> could now consider freezing all the modules to cut out having to stat or >> read them from disk. > [...] >> Thoughts? > > They still get read from disk, except that it is the operating system > that does the reading. So what you really save is the access to many > tiny files; something that can also be achieved with the zipfile import. > So I wonder how your all-frozen binary compares to a standard binary > with a python35.zip. > > If it is comparable, I'd rather extend on that route, i.e. promote > putting the standard library into a zip file in the default > installation, and also find a way where (say) /usr/bin/hg could > conveniently specify a zip file that will contain the Mercurial > byte code. For example, we could support a -Z option for the interpreter > which would allow to append a zip file to a script that gets put on > sys.path.
Has anyone tried running mercurial as a zipfile with __main__.py and a prepended shebang line rather than as a collection of independent files? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
