On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > __pycache__/spam.cpython-38.pyc > __pycache__/spam.cpython-38-doc.pyc > __pycache__/spam.cpython-38-lno.pyc > __pycache__/spam.cpython-38-ann.pyc > Our product uses the doc strings for auto-generated help, so we need to keep those. We also allow users to write plugins and scripts, so getting valid feedback in tracebacks is essential for our support people, so we'll keep the lno files, too. Annotations can probably go. Looking at one of our little pyc files, I see: -rwx------+ 1 efahlgren admins 9252 Apr 10 17:25 ./lm/lib/config.pyc* Since disk blocks are typically 4096 bytes, that's really a 12k file. Let's say it's 8k of byte code, 1k of doc, a bit of lno. So the proposed layout would give: config.pyc -> 8k config-doc.pyc -> 4k config-lno.pyc -> 4k So now I've increased disk usage by 25% (yeah yeah, I know, I picked that small file on purpose to illustrate the point, but it's not unusual). These files are often opened over a network, at least for user plugins. This can take a really, really long time on some of our poorly connected machines, like 1-2 seconds per file (no kidding, it's horrible). Now instead of opening just one file in 1-2 seconds, we have increased the time by 300%, just to do the stat+open, probably another stat to make sure there's no "ann" file laying about. Ouch. -1 from me.
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