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On Sunday 16 December 2007 22:04:52 Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> > In this case it's not really significant. The biggest performance hit for |
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> > a package manager for Gentoo remains I/O no matter which language you |
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> > use... |
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> Yeah, you are right - although there is one step of an emerge that seems |
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> to hit my P3 hard: right after it reads the data from disk to determine |
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> dependencies, it goes 100% CPU for a few seconds. Just think, we could |
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> save a few seconds! ;) But seriously, I totally think Python is the |
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> tool for the package manager job - I was just trying to outline when you |
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> might choose C++ over python... |
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Heh, I don't think Python is the right choice. Performance just isn't the |
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reason. ;) |
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Bo Andresen |