alt Hacker NewsThat's a pretty big claim. I don't doubt that a lot of uv's benefits are algo. But everything? Considering that running non IO-bound native code should be an order of magnitude faster than python.
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thfuran • today at 12:10 AM
More than one, I'd think.
Its a pretty well-supported claim. uv skips doing a number of things that generate file I/O. File I/O is far more costly than the difference in raw computation. pip can't drop those for compatibility reasons.
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html