Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> writes: > For python things you really want python or C instead of C++...
Well, we have boost-python to do python extensions in C++. And yes, introducing boost as a dependency to portage is not cool. >> I guess the dep-tree calculation is the slowest part. > Yes, it's doing lots of silly dynamic things (backtracking), and > portage codebase on average is not designed for speed. > > As a first step I would recommend profiling it and removing unneeded > stuff (do less work!), rewriting parts in C is a lot of work and not > needed for the first round of speedups. Cython[1] can be used to generate C code quickly to avoid spending to much time coding in C. 1. http://www.cython.org
