Comment by cdavid

One "simple" thing that could be done is to make it easier to build python statically, and improve the freezing toolchain.

When I used to care about the problem, I looked into it (https://cournape.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/distributing-pytho...) and got somewhere. It improves somewhat startup times, and allow distribution of a single binary.

Lots of libraries are terribly slow to import (e.g. requests), but right now there is little incentive to fix it as there is no toolchain to build good, self-contained python CLI apps.