On 2/23/11 12:28 PM, William Stein wrote:
At lunch yesterday Robert Bradshaw made the interesting suggestion to read the docs for importlib (http://docs.python.org/dev/library/importlib.html) and write a customized import hook, so that every time during Sage startup that a module is imported, the import is done from a single big in-memory zip file instead of done using the filesystem. If this can be made to work, it would be a huge win for slow filesystems. The basic problem is that some filesystems are fast but have huge*latency*.
Is it a big win primarily because the zip file contents can be read in and cached by us? I'm just trying to understand it better. Is this the same idea as Jar files in java?
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