On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:21:34 +1300, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> well, from a performance perspective, it would be nice if Python looked >> for *fewer* things, not more things. > >Instead of searching for things by doing a stat call >for each possible file name, would it perhaps be >faster to read the contents of all the directories >along sys.path into memory and then go searching >through that?
Bad for large directories. There's a cross-over at some number of entries. Maybe Python should have a runtime-tuned heuristic for selecting a filesystem traversal mechanism. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
