> Another thing to consider: on App Engine (which despite of all its > architectural weirdness uses a -- mostly -- standard Linux filesystem > for the Python code of the app) someone measured that importing from a > zipfile is much faster than importing from the filesystem. I would > imagine this extends to other contexts too, and it makes sense because > the zipfile directory gets cached in memory so no stat() calls are > necessary.
Of course, you can't know until you measure, and then you only know about the specific case. However, I think you can't really compare zip reading with directory reading - I'd expect that reading a zip directory is signficantly faster than reading the directory contents of the zip file unpacked, just because this is so many fewer layers of indirection. 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
