[Distutils] formencode as .egg in Debian ??

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:04 PM 11/22/2005 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>Last I checked, CPUs and RAM are a lot faster than disk.  Unless it's
>sitting in cache already, reading a zip should be way faster than
>reading an uncompressed file.  On top of that, I don't think egg zips
>are compressed by default...

Actually, they are.  However, I also don't believe that decompression tends 
to be a very computationally intensive activity.  It would be interesting, 
however, to see some actual comparisons of import times between compressed, 
uncompressed, and entirely unzipped eggs.