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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stack smash protected daemons
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:00:42
Message-Id: 200409242100.39405.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stack smash protected daemons by John Richard Moser
1 On Friday 24 September 2004 17:48, John Richard Moser wrote:
2 >
3 > I don't know how Python is coded. It uses 'compiled' .py objects,
4 > right? Bytecode interpreters probably wouldn't take as big a hit as
5 > straight interpreters that process assloads of strings; I may be wrong,
6 > the interpreters may have char[] arrays in their functions and use tiny,
7 > rapidly called functions :)
8 >
9 I did some parsing in python. Python's string functions are far from optimal.
10 Especially when implementing a tokenizer/parser which involves a lot of
11 string manipulation.
12
13 Paul
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16 Paul de Vrieze
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