[Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup

[Eric Snow]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps not so much "a very real advantage" as "less of a
distraction". It's still significantly slower than 2.7.  :)

-eric