Joe Gordon wrote: >> And this is a test with shedskin, I suppose that in more complicated >> dependecy scenarios it should perform better. >>>> [majopela at redcylon tmp]$ cat <<EOF >test.py >> > import sys >> > print "hello world" >> > sys.exit(0) >> > EOF >>>> [majopela at redcylon tmp]$ time python test.py >> hello world >>>> real 0m0.016s >> user 0m0.015s >> sys 0m0.001s >> This looks very promising! >> A few gotchas: >> * Very limited library support > https://code.google.com/p/shedskin/wiki/docs#Library_Limitations > * no logging > * no six > * no subprocess >> * no *args support > * https://code.google.com/p/shedskin/wiki/docs#Python_Subset_Restrictions This certainly looks promising enough to do a more complete proof-of-concept around it. This adds packaging complexity and we are likely to have only a subset of features available, but it may still be worth it. I filed the following session so that we can discuss it at the summit: http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/97 -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)