Thread: Making Python faster (for fmms initially)
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Joorin is offline Joorin
2010-04-26 , 11:51
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#34
Originally Posted by X-Fade View Post
Precompiling should save quite a lot on parsing as it needs to simple read less bytes from storage and doesn't have to do the parse part.
Precompiled code in an evaluated environment speeds up loading a great deal.

But remember that the time it took to start the program always gets spread out over how long time you actually use the program. 10s to start for an application that you use 2s (for example getting temperature data from your favourite source and displaying it) is painful. 10s to start for an application that you use for 20m is something quite different.

But sure, it's always nice when applications start almost before you knew you wanted to use them.
 

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