On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:24:27 +0200 Tom Wijsman wrote: > I have one; it's great to help make my boot short, but it isn't really > a great improvement for the Portage tree. Better I/O isn't a solution > to computational complexity; it doesn't deal with the CPU bottleneck. If the CPU is your bottleneck, Python won't help you. Python's threads are fine for making IO easier, but the GIL prevents them from being of any use for CPU intensive calculations. Having said that, the CPU isn't your bottleneck. -- Ciaran McCreesh