gh-100562: improve performance of `pathlib.Path.absolute()` #100563

barneygale · 2022-12-28T00:43:34Z

Increase performance of the absolute() method by calling os.getcwd() directly, rather than using the Path.cwd() class method. This avoids constructing an extra Path object (and the parsing/normalization that comes with it).

Decrease performance of the cwd() class method by calling the Path.absolute() method, rather than using os.getcwd() directly. This involves constructing an extra Path object. We do this to maintain a longstanding pattern where os functions are called from only one place, which allows them to be more readily replaced by users. As cwd() is generally called at most once within user programs, it's a good bargain.

# before
$ ./python -m timeit -s 'from pathlib import Path; p = Path("foo", "bar")' 'p.absolute()'
50000 loops, best of 5: 9.04 usec per loop
# after
$ ./python -m timeit -s 'from pathlib import Path; p = Path("foo", "bar")' 'p.absolute()'
50000 loops, best of 5: 5.02 usec per loop

Issue: Improve performance of pathlib.Path.absolute() #100562

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:AlexWaygood

Increase performance of the `absolute()` method by calling `os.getcwd()` directly, rather than using the `Path.cwd()` class method. This avoids constructing an extra `Path` object (and the parsing/normalization that comes with it). Decrease performance of the `cwd()` class method by calling the `Path.absolute()` method, rather than using `os.getcwd()` directly. This involves constructing an extra `Path` object. We do this to maintain a longstanding pattern where `os` functions are called from only one place, which allows them to be more readily replaced by users. As `cwd()` is generally called at most once within user programs, it's a good bargain.

Lib/pathlib.py

AlexWaygood

This looks great to me. I agree that it's much more important to optimise Path.absolute() than Path.cwd(), and I can reproduce the huge speedup.

Is the plan still to hold off merging this for now until #100563 (comment) is resolved, or can this be merged at any time?

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barneygale · 2023-01-05T21:21:58Z

Thanks for the review!

Is the plan still to hold off merging this for now until #100563 (comment) is resolved, or can this be merged at any time?

I think this can be merged any time. The backport for the fix for Eryk's issue will be slightly more complicated, but I will cope :D

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AlexWaygood · 2023-01-05T21:25:38Z

I think all the tests are failing because Guido just broke the main branch accidentally :-)

But I'll re-run the tests here as soon as the fix in #100778 is merged (just to be on the safe side), then I'll merge!

miss-islington · 2023-01-05T22:11:49Z

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AlexWaygood · 2023-01-05T23:22:13Z

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Looks like a fluke to me, I can't see how this change would mean that test_concurrent_futures would start leaking changes into the test environment

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