Gotcha, Eric. And OMG! Test conversions taking more than 9 hours *would* be, um, a slight problem!! Best of luck, plus I'm happy to hear that in Go you seem to have found a tool that fits the job :-)
Me too, I'm right there behind you in working on grokking and understanding the idioms <https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html> of the amazing language that is Go (I switched to Go full-time earlier this year). So far, so good. ~Akram On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 12:48:10 PM UTC-5, Eric Raymond wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 1:32:18 PM UTC-4, Akram Ahmad wrote: >> >> Your work on porting *reposurgeon* (from Python into Go) for improved >> performance sounds very cool, Eric (BTW, your work in, and musings on, Lisp >> and UNIX have been a huge influence on my evolution as a programmer. Kudos >> for that! >> > > Thanks for the kind words. > > I have rather been forced into this. In cooperation with the GCC devteam, > I'm trying to move their repository from Subversion to git. It's so > freaking big and Python is so slow that test conversions are taking more > than 9 hours, with occasional OOMs because the working set is so huge. I > have got to reduce that cycle time, it is making forensics on the > malformations in the history effectively impossible. > > Go seems to be a tool that fits the job - translation of a smaller > auxiliary program suggests I ca n reasonably expect a 40x speed increase - > but this is my first major project in it and I have not yet mastered the > language. > > Once I do, I expect it to replace C for all my new projects that would > otherwise have been C. Also anything I would havew written in Python that > needs to perform at machine speeds rather than human speed. > -- 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.
