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[Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Apr 15 17:53:26 CEST 2014 
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've no idea whether that's the case or not. All I know is, every time
> I need to work with a Mercurial repo it feels a lot slower than doing
> similar work on a similar size git repo [1], so any improvement (or
> reduction of penalty) will be noticeable.

Based on what I saw, I really don't think that startup slowness is in
imports of Python stdlib modules, which is all Brett was aiming at. I
*can* believe overall import slowness might be a problem, but in that
case, Brett's work isn't going to help the Mercurial folks much.

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