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Description
Editable installs trigger a build on the module import, so it is important to try to optimize them as much as we can.
I am opening this issue to track the discovery, and state of work done on this.
Possible improvements:
meson compile
takes an unnecessary amount of time to spawn the build backend- some background: We started calling
ninja
directly in ENH: do not use the 'meson compile' indirection to build the project #328, but that change will be reverted in BUG: Use meson compile wrapper on Windows #371 - It could make sense to try to optimize this in Meson itself
- some background: We started calling