[Python-Dev] Timing breakdown of Py_InitializeEx_Private()

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/16/2014 3:46 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> On 16.04.2014 04:35, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Well, that's the part that does "import site". Anything that speeds up
>> the code in Lib/site.py might help. :-)
>
> Antoine, Victor and me have implemented a couple of speed ups for
> "import site" already. I removed several unnecessary imports by
> rearranging some code. AFAIK imports on OSX haven't been optimized yet.
>
> On Linux I get:
>
> $ ./python -c "import sys; print(len(sys.modules))"
> 34
> $ ./python -S -c "import sys; print(len(sys.modules))"
> 22

With 3.4.0 installed on Windows, or 3.5 repository, 39 and 25

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Terry Jan Reedy