[Distutils] For maximum performance, Python packages are best installed as zip files.

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Apr 11 07:41:47 EDT 2016


On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:40:05 -0400
Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 7:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > 
> > There is a certain number of disk accesses
> > that is necessary to get the required metadata in a correct way.
> 
> Right, but a SSD will perform those disk accesses quicker. Obviously doing less of them is better than doing more of them faster, but doing less of them faster seems to me to be better than doing less of them slower?

Yes, that's true.

Regards

Antoine.


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