On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Carlos Ferreira <carlosmf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's improper because it is not the correct way of doing things. Calling > external commands usually require calling the terminal and all of the > overhead that it requires. > Using binds is a more efficient and direct approach. Also, why calling an > external command when you can just load a shared library? It never made any > sense to me... > I have my share of Python development and every time I need to implement a > feature that requires an extra kick (performance), I do it using binds and > by implementing my own Python Module. > have you tried github.com/go-python/gopy for automating the creation of python modules from a Go package? (sadly, for Go=1.5 at this time...) </shameless-plug> -s > Laziness today is a problem tomorrow. > > > On 24 October 2016 at 01:03, Kiki Sugiaman <ksugia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Don't forget os/exec. If the performance overhead of invoking an external >> process is acceptable, a mature application that's been around for 10-20 >> years beats the one we just wrote last week. There are plenty of such >> applications written in C/C++ in NIX world. >> >> A lot of people have this funny notion of proper (using bindings) vs >> improper (calling external command) way to use C/C++ from Go. If using >> os/exec helps accomplish our goals within our constraints and it saves us >> days or weeks of development and debugging, why not? I don't see improper, >> just tradeoffs. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/golang-nuts/LpXoEAj1Jzs/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > > Carlos Miguel Ferreira > Researcher at Telecommunications Institute > Aveiro - Portugal > Work E-mail - c...@av.it.pt > Skype & GTalk -> carlosmf...@gmail.com > LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
