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. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
