On 7/7/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scripts are great, but they aren't for whole applications. Yes, that would be a quotable.
I think (someone please correct me if I am wrong) that most of portage is actually implemented in python. The actual merge process is shell script, but things like dependency resolution and so forth should be all python. And python is actually pretty quick. Not nearly as fast as C, but easily fast enough for this kind of work. I think you would find the biggest gains would be from using more efficient algorithms and data storage, rather than re-implementing parts in another language. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
