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

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu Apr 17 2014 at 5:21:14 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>
wrote:

> Am 17.04.14 20:47, schrieb Brett Cannon:
> > Because people keep bringing it up, below is the results of hacking up
> > the interpreter to include a sys.path entry for ./python35.zip instead
> > of hard-coding to /usr/lib/python35.zip and simply zipped up Lib/
> > recursively. TL;DR, zipimport performance no longer measures up
> > (probably because of stat caching and such that importlib introduced).
>
> [I found the answer on what is being compared in replies]
>

Yeah, I did it in under 5 minutes on a whim so I wasn't entirely thinking
when I posted the numbers.


>
> So how did you create the zip file?


zip ../python35.zip -r .


> Any chance that you may have
> compressed the pyc files?
>

Yes.

-Brett
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