[Python-Dev] Planning on removing cache invalidation for file finders

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 16:37:56 CET 2013


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's that case where the process that added the modules is separate
> from the process scanning for them, and the communication is one way,
> where the heuristic is important. Explicit invalidation only works
> when they're the *same* process, or when they're closely coupled so
> the adding process can tell the scanning process to invalidate the
> caches (our test suite is mostly the former although there are a
> couple of cases of the latter).

s/are/may be/ (I don't actually remember if there are or not off the
top of my head)

Cheers,
Nick.

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