[Python-Dev] Empty directory is a namespace?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 15:51 -0400, PJ Eby a écrit :

> 
> I don't really want to spread the idea that they're faster, either:
> the exact same benchmark can probably be made to turn out differently
> if you have, say, a hundred unzipped eggs on sys.path after the
> benchmark directory.

Yes, the case where sys.path is long (thanks to setuptools) is precisely
what I was thinking about.

>   A more realistic benchmark would import more than one module,
> though...

Indeed.

> That's what I meant by "lost in the noise": the outcome of the
> benchmark depends on which of many potentially-plausible setups and
> applications you choose to use as your basis for measurement,

Should we forget to care about performance, just because different
setups might yield different results? That's a rather unconstructive
attitude.

Regards

Antoine.