On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 06:26:49 pm Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >> And koji.fedoraproject.org, no? > koji is a mod_python app. it doesnt run as a daemon at all. > but it it all python. There are python daemons in the system though. The builders run kojid, which is a daemon, and the process that triggers repo regeneration (kojira) is a daemon. Of course, these are not public facing -- they really only talk to the hub. The daemon distinction might be wrong thing to fixate on here. There is nothing in that distinction that should exclude python (or most any language). I think the real factors of concern are: size, complexity, speed, system load, robustness, and security. It's entirely possible to create large and complex systems with Python. It's expressiveness and interpreted nature are a big help here. Robustness is probably more a factor of design and good coding than the language itself. That being said, the relative ease of programming in Python, coupled with its exception handling, likely give it an advantage over C in this department (over the same development time at least). That's my opinion; others may disagree (and of course Python is not the only rapid development language with good exception handling). Security threats are everywhere. With Python at least you have to worry much less about buffer overflows, but of course you can introduce security flaws in any language. Obviously, as an interpreted language, system load and speed are where Python suffers. There are optimization tricks, but you'll never get close to execution speed of C. You can rewrite crucial portions in C, though I rarely see that actually done. _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
