Greg Ewing schrieb: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> well, from a performance perspective, it would be nice if Python looked >> for *fewer* things, not more things. > > Instead of searching for things by doing a stat call > for each possible file name, would it perhaps be > faster to read the contents of all the directories > along sys.path into memory and then go searching > through that?
That should never be better: the system will cache the directory blocks, also, and it will do a better job than Python will. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
