On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right now this all seems highly speculative to me. I think it might >> be informative, either to you or to me, to do an actual timing test. >> Why don't you try setting up two side-by-side installations of Python, >> one with all the site-packages cruft, and one trimmed down to only >> what you think should be in there, and see if you can measure a real >> difference in startup time? > > In the original stackoverflow thread I mentioned, there's a speed > comparison.
That's just comparing using -S against not using -S, though. As I understand it, you don't want to use -S; you still want to import site but just want to pare down your site-packages for a speedup. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
