On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> It has been suggested by PJE that the
> exports information should be in a separate file for speed of searching -
> though that suggestion was made in a pre-JSON world, where the speed of
> parsing the metadata wasn't C-assisted.

I don't think it was speed of parsing the file that was his concern, rather that
if it's a separate file that only exists when there are entry points, then you
don't have to open a file for every installed distribution.

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