[Zope3-dev] Precompiled configuration: a dead end

[Jim Fulton]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
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> The result of this experiment: unpickling context.actions shaves off
> about 0.3 seconds from the startup time as opposed to parsing ZCMLs.
> That is, pickle.load eats up 5.1 seconds, while include(...) eats up 5.4
> seconds (2.1 for imports + 3.3 for parsing).

Is there some reason you used pickle rather than cPickle?
(Or did you really use cPickle.)

cPickle is orders of magnitude faster than pickle.

Jim

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