also, the cost of startup for large pex files is b...
# pexr
rough-minister-58256
10/09/2019, 9:05 PMalso, the cost of startup for large pex files is becoming painful for us (10s of seconds) in a zip_safe=False world; fwict, leveraging something other than python’s zip support, which is horrendously slow, (maybe a quick python + rust lib) might be a quick win there. the problem would be that this would make pex platform specific, but could be a “use if present” type thing.
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aloof-angle-91616
10/09/2019, 10:26 PMwe decompress stuff with rust with pants right now
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10/09/2019, 10:26 PMjust for unpacking v1 cache artifacts
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10/09/2019, 10:27 PMaloof-angle-91616
10/09/2019, 10:29 PMaloof-angle-91616
10/09/2019, 10:30 PMand that just calls this (the
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10/09/2019, 10:30 PMso pants could possibly make use of this as well or we could rip it from pants either way
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10/09/2019, 10:30 PMpyoxidizer is pretty cool too for import time, or at least the idea of it