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From: "Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved
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On 7/7/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Scripts are great, but they aren't for whole applications. Yes, that
> > would be a quotable.
>
> I think (someone please correct me if I am wrong) that most of portage
> is actually implemented in python. The actual merge process is shell
> script, but things like dependency resolution and so forth should be
> all python.
I don't speak much python.
> And python is actually pretty quick. Not nearly as fast as C, but
> easily fast enough for this kind of work. I think you would find the
> biggest gains would be from using more efficient algorithms and data
> storage, rather than re-implementing parts in another language.
Yeah, you're most likely right.
> -Richard
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