#31599: Improve the performance of the autoreloader by ignoring third party
packages
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Reporter: Tom Forbes | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Utilities | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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In https://github.com/django/django/pull/12750 and
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30372 we stopped watching the
translation files that Django ships, to improve the performance of the
autoreloader.
I believe we can go a step further and stop monitoring all third-party
packages for changes by using the sysconfig module:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sysconfig.html. With this we can get a
list of different Python system directories, for example:
{{{
data = "/Users/tom/PycharmProjects/github/orf/django/venv"
include =
"/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m"
platinclude =
"/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m"
platlib =
"/Users/tom/PycharmProjects/github/orf/django/venv/lib/python3.7/site-
packages"
platstdlib =
"/Users/tom/PycharmProjects/github/orf/django/venv/lib/python3.7"
purelib =
"/Users/tom/PycharmProjects/github/orf/django/venv/lib/python3.7/site-
packages"
scripts = "/Users/tom/PycharmProjects/github/orf/django/venv/bin"
stdlib =
"/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7"
}}}
We could simply not watch any path under the `purelib` directory to start.
This would exclude a huge number of files from being watched - Django
alone has 824 individual files that would be excluded, and it's safe to
assume that a large project with many third party dependencies would have
several thousand.
This would be a breaking change - personally I sometimes find myself
navigating into third party code and making small changes while debugging,
and I'm sure others do this from time to time. However I don't think it's
a common occurance for most developers and I'm not sure everyone paying a
cost is worth the benefit to a small number of people.
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