Ugh. Thank you for the correction. :(
I mean, you’re on the right track in that they did cut out other insanity. But unclear how much of the speed up is necessarily tied to breaking backward compat (are there a lot of “.egg” files in the wild?)
> (are there a lot of “.egg” files in the wild?)
Not as far as I can tell, except perhaps in extended-support legacy environments (for example, ActiveState is still maintaining a Python 2.x distribution).
> uv parses TOML and wheel metadata natively, only spawning Python when it hits a setup.py-only package that has no other option
The article implies that pip also prefers toml and wheel metadata, but has to shell out to parse those, unlike uv.