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Description
pathlib.PurePath.__reduce__()
currently accesses and returns the parts
tuple. Pathlib ensures that the strings therein are interned.
There's a good reason to do this: it ensures that the pickled data is as small as possible, with maximum re-use of small string objects.
However, it comes with some disadvantages:
- When normalising any path, we need to call
sys.intern(str(part))
on each part - When pickling a path, we must join, parse and normalise, and then generate the
parts
tuple.
We could instead make __reduce__()
return the raw paths fed to the constructor (the _raw_paths
attribute). This would be faster but less space efficient. With the cost of storage and bandwidth falling at a faster rate than compute, I suspect this trade-off is worth making.