On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:58 AM Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We've frozen most of the stdlib modules imported during "python -c > pass" [1][2], to make startup a bit faster. Import of those modules > is controlled by "-X frozen_modules=[on|off]". Currently it defaults > to "off" but we'd like to default to "on". The blocker is the impact > on contributors. I expect many will make changes to a stdlib module > and then puzzle over why those changes aren't getting used. That's an > annoyance we can avoid, which is the point of this thread. > > Possible solutions: > > 1. always default to "on" (the annoyance for contributors isn't big enough?) > 2. default to "on" if it's a PGO build (and "off" otherwise) > 3. default to "on" unless running from the source tree > > Thoughts?
When exactly does the freezing happen? It's only a single data point, but when I'm tinkering with the stdlib itself, I'm always running from the source tree. So option 3 seems quite viable. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QIIXTPTVOIWUBSEC33QWUO73UNTKCEZA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
