On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:08:19 -0400 Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > I’m not sure if that is still the case with modern SSDs, but I think the idea > is that by putting everything inside of zip files you reduce the number of > stat calls that Python needs to do (they flip side of this is that > pkg_resources is incredibly slow because it needs to issue a ton of stat > calls on import).
I don't think SSDs have anything to do in it since the kernel should cache directory contents, rather it's the number of system calls issued. But as Paul says, in Python 3 importlib got a lot of optimization work on this front, so this advice probably doesn't apply anymore. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
