On 11/18/10 10:58 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > ----- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> 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.... /me ducks -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
