[SciPy-user] Newbie question on execution time of import scipy

[David Ascher]

Seth Falcon wrote:

> Executing from a network mapped drive is slow.  I still find this
> surprising because all of the executables/libraries/packages are on
> local disk.  I know that Python will search the current directory
> for modules, but I don't see how that could account for the slowdown
> unless it is search on the network drive in places other than
> current directory ??

Each module import will result in a few stat() calls in the local directory 
(looking for .so, .pyd, .pyc/.pyo, and .py).  If each stat call is very slow, 
those add up, especially as scipy does a lot of imports.

--david