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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So if I’m using pip with PyPI, am I already getting the benefits of wheels? Or is there something I’m missing.

Sorry for the stupid question, I’m just not sure what the impacts of wheels are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m a noob and I don’t really understand what the impacts will be. Maybe it’ll increase speeds? I think that’s what it was getting at

[–] jnovinger 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The installed packages themselves won't be faster, but they will install faster, sometimes much faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And the reason is because you don't need to (automatically, given) download the tools to compile the package - wheels are precompiled packages for your system.

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