On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:04:55PM +0200, Thomas Güttler wrote: > From > https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#setting-the-zip-safe-flag > > > For maximum performance, Python packages are best installed as zip files. > > What kind of performance improvement is this? > > Is this improvement really measurable? > > What improvement numbers do you get?
A long time ago I saw a thread (maybe on this very list) with concrete
numbers. I only remember the conclusion:
- everything in one zip file (including the Python stdlib) was fastest
- everything unzipped was 2nd fastest
- multiple zipped eggs were slowest
This was probably done in the times of rotational hard disks. It would
be interesting to see someone repeat that experiment.
Marius Gedminas
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