>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kyle> I would like to propose a new internal engine for fink, based around Kyle> an Objective C library that I will call Finch in this email. Why objective-C? Perl would get the job done faster, cheaper, and with a larger installed base of people who can make contributions. If there's any part of the Perl programming that is too slow, please demonstrate it with benchmarks. I doubt that *any* part of the current program is CPU bound. It's almost certainly I/O and operating-system bound, which means that the choice of language should be made based on cost of development, not raw speed. Even having said that, you can always optimize Perl, usually even staying within Perl, but sometimes by popping into C, which is easy with Inline::C. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
