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Fix performance regression in utils._generate_installed_modules#2703

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Fix performance regression in utils._generate_installed_modules#2703
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Commit 8c24d33 causes a performance regression when PYTHONPATH is long, because it traverses PYTHONPATH for every distribution found (importlib.metadata.version traverses PYTHONPATH searching for a matching distribution for every call)

In our case we have an environment containing ~500 paths, and containing ~100 distributions, and where the first call to sentry_sdk.utils.package_version causes ~150k filesystems operations taking 10-20 seconds.

This commit uses the version from the distribution found when iterating all distributions, instead of calling importlib.metadata.version for each, which fixes the performance issue for us.

Note that if multiple copies of a distribution with different versions exist in PYTHONPATH the existing _generate_installed_modules will return the name and version of the first matching distribution found multiple times, which will then be discarded by creation of a dict in _get_installed_modules. I have preserved the same behaviour by returning the name and version of a distribution only the first time a distribution name is seen.

The existing test for sentry_sdk.utils._get_installed_modules checks that the correct result is still returned.

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Commit 8c24d33 causes a performance regression when PYTHONPATH is long, because it traverses PYTHONPATH for every distribution found (importlib.metadata.version traverses PYTHONPATH searching for a matching distribution for every call)

In our case we have an environment containing ~500 paths, and containing ~100 distributions, and where the first call to sentry_sdk.utils.package_version causes ~150k filesystems operations taking 10-20 seconds.

This commit uses the version from the distribution found when iterating all distributions, instead of calling importlib.metadata.version for each, which fixes the performance issue for us.

Note that if multiple copies of a distribution with different versions exist in PYTHONPATH the existing _generate_installed_modules will return the name and version of the first matching distribution found multiple times, which will then be discarded by creation of a dict in _get_installed_modules. I have preserved the same behaviour by returning the name and version of a distribution only the first time a distribution name is seen.
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Thanks for the fix @GlenWalker! Looking good.

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