Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is similar to the idea of loading the stdlib from a zip file (but less intrusive and more debugging-friendly). The time savings will depend on whether the filesystem cache is cold or hot. In the latter case, my intuition is that decompression will slow things down a bit :-)
Quick decompression benchmark on a popular stdlib module, and a fast CPU: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import zlib; data = zlib.compress(open('Lib/__pycache__/threading.cpython-35.pyc', 'rb').read())" "zlib.decompress(data)" 10000 loops, best of 3: 180 usec per loop ---------- nosy: +tim.peters _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22789> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com