Does the virtual environment take advantage of web application performance?

Question

I have a django application. I have never encountered any performance issues, although the application is hosted on a shared hosting platform.

The vendor has asked me recently to use python virtualenv . Since then, performance has been very poor, although I cannot detect changes in CPU usage or any other statistics.

So my question is: does using a virtual environment affect performance? If so, how?

Answer 1

No, this does not affect performance. Basically all he does is change the python path to virtual. Therefore, there should be no difference with performance.