[Python-Dev] Store startup modules as C structures for 20%+ startup speed improvement?

[Carl Shapiro]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> I think it's of limited interest if it only helps with modules used
> during the startup sequence, not arbitrary stdlib or third-party
> modules.
>

This should help any use-case that is already using the freeze module
already bundled with CPython.  Third-party code, like py2exe, py2app,
pyinstaller, and XAR could build upon this to create applications that
start faster.


> To give an idea, on my machine the baseline Python startup is about 20ms
> (`time python -c pass`), but if I import Numpy it grows to 100ms, and
> with Pandas it's more than 200ms.  Saving 4ms on the baseline startup
> would make no practical difference for concrete usage.
>

Do you have a feeling for how many of those milliseconds are spend loading
bytecode from disk?  If so standalone executables that contain numpy and
pandas (and mercurial) would start faster


> I'm ready to think there are other use cases where it matters, though.
>

I think so.  I hope you will, too :-)
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