On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:43 AM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 08:38 PM 4/23/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> 275 0.024 0.000 0.151 0.001 posixpath.py:351(realpath) > > Ouch. So, over one third of the execution time is spent translating > symlinks? That seems... excessive.
Yes, before making the modification you suggested, I memoized those calls (normalize_path), and it was already a significant win (like 25 % less time in import, but still proportional to the number of *.egg-info). Even now it seems to be worthwhile (but only a few % win). David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
