On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:08:25 -0800 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > (Basically I am biased to believe that stat() is a pretty slow system > call -- this may just be old NFS lore though.)
I don't know about NFS, but starting a Python interpreter located on a Samba share from a Windows VM is quite slow too. I think Martin is right for the common case: on a local filesystem on a modern Unix, stat() is certainly very fast. Remote or distributed filesystems seem to be more of a problem. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
