In general the patch LGTM. It allows to speed up glob by 5-10% in warn test. But much more gain we can achieve by using os.scandir(). Here are results of microbenchmarks:
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from glob import glob" -- "glob('**/*', recursive=True)"
Unpatched: 201 msec per loop
Using isdir(): 181 msec per loop
Using scandir(): 65.2 msec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from glob import glob" -- "glob('/usr/lib*/**/*', recursive=True)"
Unpatched: 2.06 sec per loop
Using isdir(): 1.92 sec per loop
Using scandir(): 820 msec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s "from glob import glob" -- "glob('/usr/lib*/**/', recursive=True)"
Unpatched: 1.77 sec per loop
Using isdir(): 1.61 sec per loop
Using scandir(): 431 msec per loop
Yet one benefit is that iglob() now yields path names without the delay for reading the full content of a directory (see issue22167). |