On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:18:41AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > Noah Gift wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:23:50PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > >>> My experience on Linux is that installing eggs as Zip files slows > >>> imports. > >> Was that in the presence of NFS? > > > > yes. > > Jim's report, which matches my experience, is not related to NFS: > multiple, zipped bdist_eggs are slower to import / use thant the same > eggs unzipped.
Right, and I was wondering whether the presence of NFS changes that or
not. (It's plausible -- if every file access requires a network
roundtrip, maybe accessing one big file is faster than accessing many
small files. I'm afraid I've exposed my total ignorance of NFS here ;)
> I think the "zip is faster" meme comes from the case of a single
> monolithic zip archive (e.g., the whole stdlib, or all the Zope eggs,
> in one file).
Yes, good point.
Marius Gedminas
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