On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:25:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:21 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > So we can get all the advantages of consuming huge amounts of memory, > > being really slow, and not responding to the ^C key? > > > > Wow, You're really talking out of your element. So let's cruise through > some of these: > 1. consuming huge amounts of memory: the 64bit memory doubling/tripling > effect isn't fun. That's true. On 32bit it is just fine, though. I'm not talking about some memory doubling effect, I'm talking about a memory multiplication by large integer effect! Take a look at the stats if you don't believe me: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=python compared to say, C: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=gcc or if you prefer a language with a similar ease of use, OCaml: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ocaml Some of these Python programs are using > 10 x more memory and > 15 x more CPU! > 2. I think you'll need to come up with a good example case for 'being > really slow'. > > 3. the ctrl-c problem (I assume you're speaking of yum here) is > directly related to rpm, written in C. Not anything to do with python. koji watch-task Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
