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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 14 Apr 2014 18:37, "Glenn Linderman" <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
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> On 4/14/2014 2:51 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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>> Freezing everything except encodings.__init__, os, and _sysconfigdata,
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> I suppose these are omitted because they can vary in different
environments?
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> But isn't Python built for a particular environment... seems like os
could be included?
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> Seems like it would be helpful to have the utf8 encoding preloaded both
to encourage people to use it rather than something else for the load-time
performance gain (although likely minuscule for one encoding), and because
they might as well, since they are spending the memory on it anyway!  :)

Via some moderately arcane hackery, UTF-8 support is already built in to
the Py3 interpreter :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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