On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 21:12 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/18/10 10:58 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > > ----- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:29:56PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >>>>> Most code is not performance critical. > >>> > >>> Much more code than you think is performance critical, > >>> particularly when I can throw up 1000 instances of it in the > >>> cloud. > >>> > >>> /me considers making snide comment about Python and how many > >>> extra power stations we've built because of it ... > > Allow me: if we all turned off python apps for one hour, we would > > save enough electricity to power the entire world for a year. > > That electricity would be eaten up on developer workstations for the > increased code development, compile, and debug time it would take to > write the same tools in other languages.... FWIW, I'm working right now on improving Python's performance: http://bugs.python.org/issue10399 ...well, I will be, once I stop checking mail :) Dave -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
