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Re: Some reflections on the future of partman [was: Partman]



Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> In order to solve the first problem we have two choices:
> 
> 1. Wait until the computers became faster.  At 2009 when sarge+1 will be
> released [;-)] they will be about 5 times faster than now.
> 
> 2. Rewrite it in some other language.  If we take this approach I would
> suggest to package some scripting language (perl, python, guile) as udeb
> as making big changes in C programs is a pain.  If I wrote partman in C
> there would be no big difference between its first version and its
> current version.

The third option is merely to optimise it. partman forks a hell of a
lot, and it sources the libraries over and over. It doesn't matter
what the implementation language is if the basic design has these two
flaws.

-- 
see shy jo

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