Comment by kelvin0

I'm a long time python user, but never really peeked under the hood. However, I have a few ideas.

Optimized modules loading: maybe loading a larger 'super' module would be faster than several smaller ones? For example a python program could be analyzed to find it's dependent modules, and then pack all these into a 'super' module.

Once the python program executes, it would load the single 'super' module and hopefully bypass all the dynamic code which each module runs when imported to load up.

As mentioned previously, this is just off the top of my head and would certainly warrant more investigation/profiling to confirm my hypothesis.