Comment by intrepidhero

What I really want for python is a knob to improve startup time. I've imagined there must be a way to "statically link dependencies so that import isn't searching the disk but just loading from a fixed location/file. There doesn't seem to be many resources on the net. I've found this one: https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/startup_time.html. I tried using virtualenvs to limit my searchable import paths, and messed around with cython in effort to come up with a static linked binary. But I've yet to come up with anything that really improves the startup time. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing.