On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In my work environment (Python 2.7.2, all the heavy lifting done in >> C++), startup costs are dominated by dynamic linking of all our C++ >> libraries and their Boost wrappers: > > > Sure, but not everyone uses Boost or has long running processes where > startup time is minuscule compared to the total execution time. >
Specific use-case that I can see: Mercurial. In a git vs hg shoot-out, git will usually win on performance, and hg is using Py2; migrating hg to Py3 will (if I understand the above figures correctly) widen that gap, so any improvement done to startup performance will give a very real advantage. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
