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coldteatoday at 12:51 AM1 replyview on HN

They operate a public package hosting interface, how is a search one any harder?


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mikethemantoday at 1:36 AM

PyPI responses are cached at 99% or higher, with less infrastructure to run.

Search is an unbounded context and does not lend itself to caching very well, as every search can contain anything

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