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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2021-11-11 02:01:53 (GMT)
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bpo-45696: Deep-freeze selected modules (GH-29118)
This gains 10% or more in startup time for `python -c pass` on UNIX-ish systems. The Makefile.pre.in generating code builds on Eric's work for bpo-45020, but the .c file generator is new. Windows version TBD.
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+This directory contains the generated .c files for all the deep-frozen
+modules. Python/frozen.c depends on these files.
+
+None of these files are committed into the repo.
+
+See Tools/scripts/freeze_modules.py for more info.