On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:30 PM, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This patch moves a few imports inside functions. I wonder whether that kind >>> of change actually helps with real applications—doesn't any real application >>> end up importing the socket module anyway at some point? >> >> I don't know if this particular change is worthwhile, but one place >> where startup slowness is particularly noticed is with commands like >> 'foo.py --help' or 'foo.py --generate-completions' (the latter called >> implicitly by hitting <tab> in some shell), which typically do lots of >> imports that end up not being used. >> > > Yes. And There are more worse scenario. > > 1. Jinja2 supports asyncio. So it imports asyncio. > 2. asyncio imports concurrent.futures, for compatibility with Future class. > 3. concurrent.futures package does > `from concurrent.futures.process import ProcessPoolExecutor` > 4. concurrent.futures.process package imports multiprocessing. > > So when I use Jinja2 but not asyncio or multiprocessing, I need to import > large dependency tree. > I want to make `import asyncio` dependency tree smaller. > > FYI, current version of Jinja2 has very large regex which took more than 100ms > when import time. It is fixed in master branch. So if you try to see > Jinja2, please > use master branch.
How significant is application startup time to something that uses Jinja2? Are there short-lived programs that use it? Python startup time matters enormously to command-line tools like Mercurial, but far less to something that's designed to start up and then keep running (eg a web app, which is where Jinja is most used). 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
