On 28 June 2014 19:17, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed, but walking even a moderately large tree over the network can > really hammer home the point that this offers a significant > performance enhancement as the latency of access increases. I've found > that kind of comparison can be eye-opening for folks that are used to > only operating on local disks (even spinning disks, let alone SSDs) > and/or relatively small trees (distro build trees aren't *that* big, > but they're big enough for this kind of difference in access overhead > to start getting annoying).
Oops, forgot to add - I agree this isn't a blocking issue for the PEP, it's definitely only in "nice to have" territory. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
