On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 17:14 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 16:34, Richard Purdie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This removes a further 1600 files from sstate handling and lets python
> > create the ones it wants at runtime which is likely much better overall
> > for performance.
> 
> Playing devil's advocate: doesn't having them in sstate mean they're
> generated once and hardlinked, instead of needing to be generated for
> every recipe which runs pythonnative?
> 
> Whilst I can't disagree that 1600 files being dropped from sstate is
> good, we're just punting the recompile step to every recipe when it
> runs python code.
> 
> I guess the question here is how long does the Python library take to 
> recompile.

Another consideration is that there are many sysroots pulling in python3-native
which don't run python and they're only there as there are python scripts being
added which means python has to come too.

I suspect for that reason it could be a net win but it is a tough call.

Cheers,

Richard

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