[Python-Dev] importlib is now bootstrapped (and what that means)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:15:16 -0400
"R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't see how depending on Cython is better than depending on having
> an existing Python.  If the only benefit is semi-readable code, surely
> we do have source code for the pre-frozen module, and it is just a matter
> of convincing hg that the bytecode is binary, not text?
> 
> Brett's earlier thought of compiling from source as a *fallback* makes
> sense to me.  I'd rather not add overhead to startup that we can avoid.

Compiling from source at which point, though?
In essence, that would mean reimplement Python/freeze_importlib.py in C?
We could even compile it to a separate executable that gets built
before the Python executable (like pgen) :-)

Regards

Antoine.