Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
My understanding is that slowdown is seen due to large number of stats
during module import.
I made a few experiments and it turns out that, on a slow B2, it
takes only 182ms to stat all the 2500 files in /usr/lib/python2.5.
I also analyzed what happens when we do
Pádraig Brady wrote:
For example there are many duplicate py[oc] files,
Yeah, do we really have to ship pyc nd pyo files?
They're sometimes even bigger than the source code,
probably due to the full blown UTF-32 strings.
No other dynamic language needs that pre-tokenized junk.
Is Python so
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
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No other dynamic language needs that pre-tokenized junk.
Is Python so slow at parsing? Has anybody measured the
hit?
There is some minor improvement in speed from the cached byte code.
That said, there's no reason to *ship* them, you can run a compileall
