The topic could be interesting but there's no chance this was written by a human. It's 25 pages long printed and goes into far too much detail and at the same time almost no detail at all, with sections like:
> The CONFLICT_THRESHOLD constant in the source is set to 5:
> [code excerpt proving that, indeed, the CONFLICT_THRESHOLD constant in the source is set to 5]
One thing that is to be said about uv: you might come for the speed, but you stay because it works so well. The Python ecosystem used to be such a mess to manage, between Python versions, environments and so on: I haven’t complained once about it since I use uv. To the point that I tend to distrust a Python project if it’s not managed with uv, and anticipate all the dependency resolution issues that I will face.
We build Python for multiple Linux distros every release cycle, so even small improvements in dependency resolution and environment setup compound pretty quickly. uv was one of the few tools where the speed difference felt obvious in day-to-day CI usage.
Reading this, the explanation around concurrent metadata fetching and cache reuse makes the improvement feel a lot less mysterious.
The topic could be interesting but there's no chance this was written by a human. It's 25 pages long printed and goes into far too much detail and at the same time almost no detail at all, with sections like:
> The CONFLICT_THRESHOLD constant in the source is set to 5:
> [code excerpt proving that, indeed, the CONFLICT_THRESHOLD constant in the source is set to 5]
(Edit: Even more apparent looking at the blog's git repo: https://github.com/nooscraft/personal-blog)
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One thing that is to be said about uv: you might come for the speed, but you stay because it works so well. The Python ecosystem used to be such a mess to manage, between Python versions, environments and so on: I haven’t complained once about it since I use uv. To the point that I tend to distrust a Python project if it’s not managed with uv, and anticipate all the dependency resolution issues that I will face.
This tracks with what we've seen.
We build Python for multiple Linux distros every release cycle, so even small improvements in dependency resolution and environment setup compound pretty quickly. uv was one of the few tools where the speed difference felt obvious in day-to-day CI usage.
Reading this, the explanation around concurrent metadata fetching and cache reuse makes the improvement feel a lot less mysterious.