Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by detaro on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:20AM
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It's a fairly straight-forward optimization if disk is a relevant part of your run time and you don't need terribly much of it. Probably not exactly common, because many people don't bother, but also not extraordinary.
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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by sethhochberg on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:59AM
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I'd bet its becoming increasingly popular/convenient to do so with the growth of container-based test suites - really trivial to include a "postgres-ram" image for your test stack instead of one that uses disk, and you don't even need to know what tmpfs is to do so.
Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by detaro on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:32AM
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If the tooling you use lets you create tmpfs mounts for your container its very easy, yes. AFAIK those are RAM-backed by default. I think from inside a container it could be difficult to have the permissions necessary.