#21223 Performance Tracking: `generate-lockfiles` Issue created by sureshjoshi There is a common mention/complaint that calling

pants generate-lockfiles ::

is slow. Creating this ticket to capture associated discussions, tickets, and even better, sample repos. • #20679 • #20897 (comment) • #20897 (comment) • #20897 (comment) From my brief experiments, using pip 24.1 improves cold lockfile generation by about 50% on a small set of requirements, but does not affect incremental checking. Some ideas that have been floated around: • Use pex's incremental lockfile updates (available, but not wired into Pants) • Use

uv

to some degree • Use

fast-deps

if we're not currently doing so (though, whether that will continue to be a standalone option: pypa/pip#12208) pantsbuild/pants