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@zooba zooba commented Nov 10, 2022

These APIs were added in Windows 8, so we can safely backport.

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zooba commented Nov 10, 2022

The rough testing I did showed about 50% reduction in startup time (~450ms->250ms) in non-ideal circumstances, but the Windows devs I was working with said it seemed right. The numbers were pretty stable.

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zooba commented Nov 10, 2022

Okay, had to retract one of the major optimisations because it can be incorrect. That brings the improvement down to around 50ms, which is still worthwhile, but not as impressive.

However, users can at least override this perf impact by setting their own PYTHONUSERBASE env variable before launching.

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zooba commented Nov 10, 2022

It's possible we might be able to bring that optimisation back, looks like Windows covers the concerning edge cases for us. Still checking

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Thanks @zooba for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.10, 3.11.
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GH-99733 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch.

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GH-99734 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch.

@bedevere-bot bedevere-bot removed the needs backport to 3.10 only security fixes label Nov 23, 2022
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Use faster APIs to calculate paths at startup for Store packaged Pyth…
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…on on Windows (pythonGH-99345)

(cherry picked from commit 71a4a2d)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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Use faster APIs to calculate paths at startup for Store packaged Pyth…
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…on on Windows (GH-99345)

(cherry picked from commit 71a4a2d)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 23, 2022
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Use faster APIs to calculate paths at startup for Store packaged Pyth…
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…on on Windows (GH-99345)

(cherry picked from commit 71a4a2d)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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