Comment by the_mitsuhiko
8 years ago
It’s only a hard problem if there is no desire. The slowdowns for the interpreter startup did not happen because they are necessary but because site.py and friends just do more stuff now and a lot of important internal tooling became unnecessarily complex.
Yeah, this whole "importlib in Python" thing continues to mystify me.
It would be okay, if Python would support a low level faster subPython within itself. RPython for example.