What is the total amount of time you spent during those few times, although including the amount of time to learn what happened, and how many thousands of times larger is that amount than the sum total of the time saved by caching bytecode compilation every single time you loaded a pyc for every file you ever wrote?
The overhead is tiny, less than milliseconds for sane modules. It's a useless optimization, especially when it can be done at install time only, say, as opposed to for every module import, but even that is somewhat silly.
Without seeing any numbers, it doesn't mean much to me. I'm assuming someone much smarter than me has identified the benefit of bytecode caching and unless it really gets in my way, I see no need to do away with it.
