Bill Deegan <b...@baddogconsulting.com> writes: > I'm doing some refactoring on a fairly large python codebase. > Some of the files are > 4000 lines long and contain many classes.
I am typically working with systems consisting of hundreds of modules (Zope/Plone). Such large systems have a significant impact on startup time (caused by extensive file system operation during startup). For one application, I had to significantly optimize to get an acceptable startup time: I have put most of the application modules into zip archives). > Should I expect any performance hit from splitting some of the classes out > to other files? Important is the number of resulting modules (and how fast your file system is): for each module, Python accesses the file system potentially many times (up to 4 times, when my memory is right) and this may significantly slow down startup (if a large number of modules must be imported). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
