71964ec7a8
This gives a 1.23 speedup on transformers-extras. We could change to
msgpack for the entire cache if we want. I only tried this format and
postcard so far, where postcard was much slower (like 1.6s).
I don't actually want to merge it like this, i wanted to figure out the
ballpark of improvement for switching away from json.
```
hyperfine --warmup 3 --runs 10 "target/profiling/puffin pip-compile --cache-dir cache-msgpack scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in" "target/profiling/branch pip-compile scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in"
Benchmark 1: target/profiling/puffin pip-compile --cache-dir cache-msgpack scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in
Time (mean ± σ): 179.1 ms ± 4.8 ms [User: 157.5 ms, System: 48.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 174.9 ms … 188.1 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: target/profiling/branch pip-compile scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in
Time (mean ± σ): 221.1 ms ± 6.7 ms [User: 208.1 ms, System: 46.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 213.5 ms … 235.5 ms 10 runs
Summary
target/profiling/puffin pip-compile --cache-dir cache-msgpack scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in ran
1.23 ± 0.05 times faster than target/profiling/branch pip-compile scripts/requirements/transformers-extras.in
```
Disadvantage: We can't manually look into the cache anymore to debug
things
- [ ] Check more formats, i currently only tested json, msgpack and
postcard, there should be other formats, too
- [x] Switch over `CachedByTimestamp` serialization (for the interpreter
caching)
- [x] Switch over error handling and make sure puffin is still resilient
to cache failure
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puffin
An experimental Python packaging tool.
Motivation
Puffin is an extremely fast (experimental) Python package resolver and installer, intended to
replace pip and pip-tools (pip-compile and pip-sync).
Puffin itself is not a complete "package manager", but rather a tool for locking dependencies
(similar to pip-compile) and installing them (similar to pip-sync). Puffin can be used to
generate a set of locked dependencies from a requirements.txt file, and then install those
locked dependencies into a virtual environment.
Puffin represents an intermediary goal in our pursuit of building a "Cargo for Python": a Python
package manager that is extremely fast, reliable, and easy to use -- capable of replacing not only
pip, but also pipx, pip-tools, virtualenv, tox, setuptools, and even pyenv, by way of
managing the Python installation itself.
Puffin's limited scope allows us to solve many of the low-level problems that are required to
build such a package manager (like package installation) while shipping an immediately useful tool
with a minimal barrier to adoption. Try it today in lieu of pip and pip-tools.
Features
- Extremely fast dependency resolution and installation: install dependencies in sub-second time.
- Disk-space efficient: Puffin uses a global cache to deduplicate dependencies, and uses Copy-on-Write on supported filesystems to reduce disk usage.
Limitations
Puffin does not yet support:
- Windows
- Editable installs (
pip install -e ...) - Package-less requirements (
pip install https://...) --find-links- ...
Like pip-compile, Puffin generates a platform-specific requirements.txt file (unlike, e.g.,
poetry, which generates a platform-agnostic poetry.lock file). As such, Puffin's
requirements.txt files are not portable across platforms and Python versions.
Usage
To resolve a requirements.in file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-compile requirements.in
To install from a resolved requirements.txt file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-sync requirements.txt
For more, see cargo run -p puffin-cli -- --help:
Usage: puffin [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
pip-compile Compile a `requirements.in` file to a `requirements.txt` file
pip-sync Sync dependencies from a `requirements.txt` file
pip-uninstall Uninstall packages from the current environment
clean Clear the cache
freeze Enumerate the installed packages in the current environment
venv Create a virtual environment
add Add a dependency to the workspace
remove Remove a dependency from the workspace
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-q, --quiet Do not print any output
-v, --verbose Use verbose output
-n, --no-cache Avoid reading from or writing to the cache
--cache-dir <CACHE_DIR> Path to the cache directory [env: PUFFIN_CACHE_DIR=]
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
License
Puffin is licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Puffin by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dually licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
