On May 9, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Clint Byrum <cl...@fewbar.com> wrote: >> Whenever I hear claims that Python is “too slow for X”, I wonder what’s so >> special about X that makes it so much more demanding than, say, serving up >> YouTube. YouTube is written nearly entirely in Python, and has been for >> many, many years. The only parts that aren’t are those that were identified >> as particular performance bottlenecks, such as some parts of the encoding >> process. These were then written in C, which is drop-in compatible with >> Python using ctypes. > > NO, we should paint it yellow!
Not even close to bikeshedding. C extensions live all throughout the Python world, and are not the equivalent of a completely new language to the ecosystem. And the point was to simply speed up the bottleneck, not the entire project. -- Ed Leafe __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
