Robert Collins wrote:
In the special case of probing for $name.$ext1, ...$ext2, ...$ext3, you generally hit the same pages and don't incur additional page in costs.
So then looking for a .pyc alongside a .py or vice versa should be almost free, and we shouldn't be worrying about it.
hot cache: % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 45.10 0.000368 92 4 getdents 0.00 0.000000 0 734 625 stat
Further supporting the idea that stat calls are negligible once the cache is warmed up. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
