-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/12/12 04:16, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, J wrote: >> >> here are the purely technical criticisms I have of IPS: 1. it's >> slow. it was slow when it started, it still is - improvements >> notwithstanding. it's written in python, so basically it will >> never operate at a reasonable speed. > > While IPS may be slow, I doubt that Python is necessarily to blame. > It is likely a design issue. As reason to believe that the problem > is not with Python, Mercurial is written in Python and Git is > written in compiled C yet Mercurial is demonstrated to perform > operations on remote repositories twice as fast.
+1. Python makes better use of programmer time and I seriously doubt Python is the reason for the IPS slowness. In fact, being so "programmer efficient" allows to use more advanced/complicated/efficient algorithms, more easily. Please, no FUD. (disclosure: I am a Python core developer, quite involved in Solaris/derivatives support). - -- Jesús Cea Avión _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [email protected] - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:[email protected] _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQCVAwUBUNLDdJlgi5GaxT1NAQIRrAP9FaoWj1xsMXV/6Ug1XUNWUUubzJXv305N 2R31yyyIwOrOHuTiV9wdw0+RzJrs+3TsKUuE/0D/sBeD24LyTkgAa9YEldhyS4v+ tFQ5TxgsltMDDKkKaqBW5NYDUTYcFuZDUs1y5D/ObCt0bDhYJL09vJtttocZ8tGI aVtoUTlCuN0= =yM8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
