pypa/pip

Speed up build environment creation (re-usable, faster)

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#7,294 opened on Nov 4, 2019

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C: PEP 517 impacthelp wantedstate: needs discussiontype: performance

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Description

Currently pip always creates all build environments from scratch, requiring network access for this. This causes a significant overhead of creating isolated build environments. Can we somehow speed-up this operation?

Idea: Creating isolated build environments from cached wheels only? Do not recreate isolated build environments from scratch, but have a master copy that we just copy.

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Research direction
Investigate pip's current build environment creation process and implement a caching mechanism using a master copy of build environments with pre installed dependencies, copying instead of rebuilding.
Tech stack
python
Domain
build system
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Pythonpip
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