From 2f8fe0d6f2b0a0011c54a57c0ba192bf1f6afc00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Ansel <jansel@jansel.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:38:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [FRONTEND] Remove unused json parse in triton.compile (#5510)

This line is somewhat expensive since it reads a file from disk.

As far as I can tell it is a duplicate of this line (which is actually
used):

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/blob/d9facf3a6edbc819c80d58b87e689bc0c2632756/python/triton/compiler/compiler.py#L360
---
 python/triton/compiler/compiler.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/triton/compiler/compiler.py b/python/triton/compiler/compiler.py
index d1210b55..4beefdc6 100644
--- a/python/triton/compiler/compiler.py
+++ b/python/triton/compiler/compiler.py
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ def compile(src, target=None, options=None):
     always_compile = os.environ.get("TRITON_ALWAYS_COMPILE", "0") == "1"
     if not always_compile and metadata_path is not None:
         # cache hit!
-        metadata = json.loads(Path(metadata_path).read_text())
         return CompiledKernel(src, metadata_group, hash)
     # initialize metadata
     metadata = {