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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> writes: |
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> For python things you really want python or C instead of C++... |
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Well, we have boost-python to do python extensions in C++. And yes, |
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introducing boost as a dependency to portage is not cool. |
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>> I guess the dep-tree calculation is the slowest part. |
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> Yes, it's doing lots of silly dynamic things (backtracking), and |
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> portage codebase on average is not designed for speed. |
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> As a first step I would recommend profiling it and removing unneeded |
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> stuff (do less work!), rewriting parts in C is a lot of work and not |
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> needed for the first round of speedups. |
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Cython[1] can be used to generate C code quickly to avoid spending to much |
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time coding in C. |
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1. http://www.cython.org |
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