[Dev] Python startup times

[Mike Taylor]

oops! I did mean decrease :)

and yes - it would make sense to not do this with the debug version for 
the reason you mention.

On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 01:15 PM 7/27/2005 -0400, Mike Taylor wrote:
>> Actually it did load quite a few of libraries - I was adding them to
>> the zip one dir at a time and until I zipped the majority of the
>> directories I was getting one import error after another.
>>
>> The load time of Chandler wasn't the point of the test - the Chandler
>> python files are not part of the zip, only the python core library.  
>> My
>> primary goal for the test was to see if we could speed up the loading
>> of the core python modules.
>>
>> What will increase the load time of Chandler is another change I'll be
>> making to the build - the pre-compiling of all .py files on each
>> platform.
>
> I think you mean *decrease* the load time.  ;)
>
> In any case, the timings you gave are for the case where hardly 
> anything is imported; I suspect that loading Chandler will show more 
> of a speedup from the zipping just because more stdlib modules will 
> have been imported.
>
> I suspect that for the debug build we may want to leave the stdlib 
> unzipped, however, so that people using debuggers can step into stdlib 
> source code -- something that can't generally be done with zipped 
> Python code at the moment.
>
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