On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:16 AM Richard Purdie <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

At runtime it should only generate pyc for modules actually used?

>
> 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.


> I tend to be in favor of the reduced number of files moving around. I
suppose we could do some timing comparisons if we really care. It will be a
trade-off of network/io vs compute/io, correct?


> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
> 
>
>
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