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Il 06/07/20 17:50, Michael 'veremitz' Everitt ha scritto: |
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> On 06/07/20 16:26, Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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>> Il 29/06/20 03:58, Sid Spry ha scritto: |
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>>> There are libraries that provide decorators, etc, for caching and |
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>>> memoization. |
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>>> Have you evaluated any of those? One is available in the standard library: |
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>>> https://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache |
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>>> |
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>>> I comment as this would increase code clarity. |
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>>> |
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>> I think portage developers try hard to avoid external dependancies |
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>> I hope hard they do |
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> I think the key word here is 'external' - anything which is part of the |
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> python standard library is game for inclusion in portage, and has/does |
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> provide much needed optimisation. Many of the issues in portage are |
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> so-called "solved problems" in computing terms, and as such, we should take |
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> advantage of these to improve performance at every available opportunity. |
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> Of course, there are presently only one, two or three key developers able |
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> to make/test these changes (indeed at scale) so progress is often slower |
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> than desirable in current circumstances... |
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> [sent direct due to posting restrictions...] |
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yes I've replied too fast and didn't notice Sid was referring to |
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_standard_ libraries (not even recent additions) |
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sorry for the noise |
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- Francesco |
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