On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 02:41:44PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 11/12/2012 07:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>I really don't understand why a core system component such as firewalld is > >>implemented in Python! > > > >Here, I mostly don't see the reason for it to be running all the time. > >Couldn't it be dbus activated, and then go away when it's not needed? Then, > >it would matter less what it was written in. > > It could be argued that python is more suited to long lived programs: > > $ time /bin/true > real 0m0.002s Hmmm: $ echo '' > true.ml $ ocamlopt.opt true.ml -o true $ time ./true real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s $ time /bin/true real 0m0.001s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s This seems about right to me: Both ocamlopt & gcc generate native x86-64 programs, but there's a small amount of overhead in the OCaml binary (initializing the minor heap of the GC). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
