Stu Hood

I believe that as long as you've [enabled bloom filters](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Prefix-Seek) that this is equivalent to opening a prefix iterator with an `iterate_upper_bound`, and then checking whether it is valid.

I'm not sure that that is true. There is no complete list of keys except in the sstable, so I don't think that you can know that the key actually...

> Can IDEs understand PEX files for debugging purposes anyway? See https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-run-goal#debugging for info on how to do this outside of `docker`... inside of docker, it should be largely the...

> 2\. Need Pants to grow the capability of discovering a local interpreter different from its own to resolve plugins with. Although horrible, I _think_ that this might involve a...

> IIUC there are 0 known 3rdparty plugins today with sdist-only deps for platforms Pants supports Wouldn't the transitive deps of in-repo plugins also be affected?

Mm, indeed. With no Python startup overhead (or smaller overhead, if it still ends up loading a Python interpreter?), the main overhead is of sandbox creation... which should also be...

> @stuhood why is this in the 2.13 milestone? Just based on the comments in #15503 ... I thought I recalled a 2.13 reference there, but I suppose not. Feel...

There are two relevant flavors of automated dependency updates: 1. Transitive dependencies: * To update transitive dependencies as of `2.11.x` (with `[python].enable_resolves=True` for Python, or by default for the JVM),...

> One other area that might be challenging is `fmt`, which uses the `Workspace` to create sideeffects that other goals would like to consume: running `./pants fmt lint` should never...

> How does `InteractiveRunner` work? This would need to be adjusted to use a similar "waiting to acquire" API, or the "run" method would just be made asynchronous itself. ----...