On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:07:00PM +0100, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: >> I imagine having the stdlib in one .zip will stop lots of seeking and >> improve the first time. > > Instead of seeking in the filesystem you end up seeking in the zip. Why > do you expect it'd be faster? >
I am going to guess Nick meant seeking in terms of "looking in the filesystem for a file", e.g. less stat calls. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com