perf: pass --no-compile
for build dependencies
#13192
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As the build environment is ephemeral, it's wasteful to pre-compile everything, especially as not every Python module will be used/compiled in most cases. In addition, the argument is that compilation ensures read-only installations are not slower than necessary is moot as the build environment is by design writable.
This saves ~200ms while installing setuptools while building pip itself. For context, a
pip install .
(with--no-index
and--find-links
) takes 3400ms andpip wheel .
takes 2200ms on main.So, it's not a major win, but it's also nothing to sneeze at. Packages using smaller backends, like flit, will likely see smaller improvements.
Towards #7294
To try this out for yourself, you can use
--no-index --find-links tests/data/common_wheels/
to pull setuptools from disk and eliminate the network as variable.