Itamar Turner Trauring • 1/22/2025

Faster pip installs: caching, bytecode compilation, and uv

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This article explores methods to accelerate Python package installation using pip. It covers avoiding slow source installations by using wheels, leveraging package caches to reduce download times, understanding bytecode compilation's impact, and using the faster uv tool as a pip replacement, including its limitations.

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