Jim Fulton wrote:
On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Benji York wrote:
And where somewhat slower could be "practically not noticable". Perhaps it /could/ be, but isn't currently. For example, updating one piece of software I have with almost 150 dependencies takes 45 seconds with ppix, 4:45 without. I plan to do similar timings with
Martin v. Löwis wrote: the "simple" PyPI interface when I get a chance and report the results here.
I suspect that this has more to do with network distance than with server speed.
That's actually my point. Geographically distributed mirrors that are a little out of sync are much more valuable (IMO) than a centralized service that is absolutely up to date, but "far" away. For me the static/dynamic argument is more about stability, and central/distributed is more about (network) speed. -- Benji York http://benjiyork.com