[Python-Dev] file and bytecode-only (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 4 04:48:36 CET 2010

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Actually, I find it neater to have a single cache directory. It makes for much less clutter, and simpler ignore rules.

Another possibility would be to have a single top-level cache directory with a subdirectory for each version:

bytecode.pycache//.pyc

I don't think this ought to increase the stat call count, since the interpreter will always be looking for a particular version of bytecode, so it can just stat for the appropriate subdirectory directly.

-- Greg

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