* Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS
@ 2014-01-10 14:02 99% ` Rich Freeman
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From: Rich Freeman @ 2014-01-10 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Igor <lanthruster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> Friday, January 10, 2014, 4:39:59 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Bad code is bad. You can write bad code in any language.
>
> BTW Perl is faster than Python too.
>
> Try writing quick sort in Perl, Ptyhon and G++
>
> then dump the memory.
>
> And watch the miracle.
I think you're missing the point.
If I ask somebody who knows nothing about algorithms to sort a list in
Python they're going to use foo.sort(). If I ask somebody who knows
nothing about algorithms to sort a list in C they're going to write a
bubble sort, and it will be WAY slower for anything more than a dozen
elements.
Honestly, you're writing as if you're talking to a bunch of people who
don't know anything about how computers work, and the reality is that
you'll be hard-pressed to find an audience more familiar with
compilers/toolchains/linkers/etc just about anywhere.
If you have the right algorithm nobody is arguing that it will run
faster if compiled from correctly-written C. The problem is that
right now we don't have the right algorithm, and we're likely to get a
lot further with fixing that faster in a language like python than in
C.
But, nobody is opposing the work - there are two alternative package
managers for Gentoo today, and one of them is full-featured. Neither
are written in python.
Rich
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2014-01-09 7:24 [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS LTHR
2014-01-09 8:12 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-09 12:44 ` Igor
2014-01-09 14:12 ` Christopher Schwan
2014-01-09 15:26 ` Igor
2014-01-10 0:16 ` heroxbd
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