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On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote:

> Why can't Python start as quickly as Perl or Ruby?

On my heavily abused Core 2 Macbook with 9 .pth files, 2.7 drops from
81ms startup to 20ms by specifying -S, which disables site.py.

Oblitering the .pth files immediately knocks 10ms off regular startup. I
guess the question isn't why Python is slower than perl, but what
aspects of site.py could be cached, reimplemented, or stripped out
entirely.  I'd personally love to see .pth support removed.


David

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