compilation

[Michael P. Soulier]

In article <8jdi5s$om4$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Frédéric van der Plancke wrote:
>
>When the interpreter finds a xxx.pyc file on your Python path when
>you type 'import xxx', it loads that directly instead of recompiling
>xxx.py  (provided xxx.py is older, and other soundness conditions)
>
>Is that what you want ?

	Umm, sort of. I guess the top-level script still has to be a .py file.
That's fine, since if you're really wanting performance you could put
everything in the modules, let python compile them into pyc's, and then just
get the ball rolling from the .py file. 
	I'll have to benchmark this and see how much of an improvement it offers. 

	Mike

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