Percentages aren't always the right gauge. uv isn't something I run frequently or for long periods of time. It's like a couple seconds every month or whatever. I would rather spend an extra second waiting every year to have hundreds more megabytes all the time.

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Xirdus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

When actively developing Python projects, running uv a dozen times per hour isn't unusual. Those seconds add up fast. Whereas freed disk space remains unused.

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pas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

warm cache case is only imperceptibly slower, no?

	▲	Xirdus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True, haven't read the source and only went by what the other commenter said. But one could argue 500MB more free space is similarly imperceptible.

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kekebo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You could reverse the last sentence to "freed disk space reduces the need to clean the hd". And I don't even mean physical limitation as much as the compulsion to manually clean ballooning cache dirs once in a while.

	▲	Xirdus 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Overprovisioning also reduces the need to clean the disk. I've had a terabyte Macbook for over a year, developing in 7 different tech stacks simultaneously, never cleaning anything up manually, and I still have over 60% space left. It's a tradeoff between wasting a little time everyday vs. wasting equally little time every year or so but also having the mental load of cleaning up plus maybe existential dread vs. spending more money to never have either problem. I do understand the last one isn't an option for everyone, but if it is, it's absolutely worth it.