[Python-Dev] importlib cleared for merging into default!

Thu Mar 8 00:33:54 CET 2012

On 7 March 2012 23:05, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> At the language summit today I got clearance to merge my importlib bootstrap
> branch (http://hg.python.org/sandbox/bcannon#bootstrap_importlib) thanks to
> performance being about 5% slower using the normal_startup (which, as Thomas
> Wouters said, is less than the difference of using the newest gcc in some
> benchmarking he recently did). Obviously thanks to everyone who has helped
> out with making this happen over the years!

Yay! Congratulations for getting this done. When I first co-authored
PEP 302 I never realised what a long road it would be from there to
here. Thanks for making it happen.
Paul.