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Bob Miller wrote: [Fri Dec 05 2003, 01:46:10PM EST] |
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> Second, is there anything wrong with Python as an implementation |
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> language? If you think Python is too slow, think again. On nearly |
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> every portage operation I do, the CPU is mostly idle -- it's the disk |
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> that's thrashing (according to gkrellm). The key to improving |
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> portage's performance is to get it to open fewer files. |
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Sort of. It's true that there's a lot that could be done to improve |
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portage performance without changing languages. Nonetheless, even the |
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smallest test shows that python has a poor startup time. |
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$ time python -c 'print "hi"' |
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user 0m0.023s |
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sys 0m0.004s |
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$ time perl -e 'print "hi\n"' |
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user 0m0.003s |
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sys 0m0.003s |
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Aron Griffis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim) |
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