The last comment "what's able to be avoided is the unmarshalling costs." Seems to imply this is very different from my idea. Although probably a prerequisite or subset of it. Seems like a good start either way!
> On 16 Sep 2019, at 18:43, jeethu <jee...@jeethurao.com> wrote: > > I'd hacked together an implementation of this idea last year for Python 3.6 > and even gave a talk[1] on it at last year's EuroPython. > > Larry Hastings was interested in this idea, so I'd sent him my patch. He > seems to have ported it to Python 3.8 and it's on this issue[2] on the bug > tracker. > > - Jeethu > > [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRqv2Bm1J18 > [2]: https://bugs.python.org/issue34690 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Monday, September 16, 2019 12:19 PM, Anders Hovmöller >> <bo...@killingar.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like some feedback on the feasibility of an idea I've had: caching >> an entire import graph to speed up interactive apps. The idea is that tools >> like pytest, pip, hg, etc would be able to save and restore an import graph >> to cut down on initial startup time. >> >> As I think of it, this will be an opt-in system where a cache file could be >> stored on disk and loaded quickly and then gone through with one or two >> passes to relocate pointers to the present values if needed. The details of >> the API to be determined later. I'm thinking it would require changes to >> pip/setuptools to clear these caches when a package is upgraded for example. >> >> I have very limited experience with the CPython code base so I'd like to >> know if this is even a feasible thing to do? >> >> Best regards >> Anders > > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TX5V6IHM2RX5OJWA6B256ZZCKX3HDTBX/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
