On 8/14/05, Martijn Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After profiling a small python script I found that approximately 50% of > the runtime of my script was consumed by one line: "import copy". > Another 15% was the startup of the interpreter, but that is OK for an > interpreted language. The copy library is used by another library I am > using for my scripts. Importing copy takes 5-10 times more time that > import os, string and re together! > I noticed that this lib is implemented in python, not in C. As I can > imagine that *a lot* of libs/scripts use the copy library, I think it > worthwhile to implement this lib in C. > > What are your opinions?
I think that copy is very rarely used. I don't think I've ever imported it. Or is it just me? -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
