Python for Large Projects

[Scott David Daniels]

Ixokai wrote:
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>Ixokai wrote:
>>>There is some concern that if we do this same thing with Python, 
>>>the performance hit of loading an interpreted environment over 
>>>the shared filesystem will be prohibitive. Some basic testing 
>>>has made this seem to be the case.
>>
>>Just focusing on this one point: it doesn't make sense to me that
>>this would be the case, and in my experience it is not....
 >
> These are GUI programs and we've decided to use wxPython, so that
 > may be adding to it. I will do more testing to see if it was just
> a fluke the last time I tried it out. It might have been :)

One thing to investigate is file openings.  If you combine all of
python (and in your case wxPython's) .pyc files into a single zip
wish an actual directory structure matching the packages you want to
use, you will only have to open the zip file once, rather than pull
each module in in several file operations.
-- 
-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org