Re: python again (was: Bug#225999: ITP: debsync -- installed packages synchronization tool)
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:33:09AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Exactly, which is why I am so confused as to what all the fuss about
> pyc and pyo files is all about. They are optimizations, and the
> programs work fine without them, and programs work fine with invalid
> ones, too.
One word: Emacs. Even if I stopped using Emacs a long time ago, I
remember fondly that the Emacs packages in Debian have always shown the
existence of large amounts of cluons in the regions surrounding their
maintainers.
Now for the off-topic:
> The optimization gained gives Python a minimal edge over Perl in some
> cases -- perhaps for CGI scripts --
Is there something to backup that statement? The only references I
have are getting dated now and Python was... hmm... slow :-) In fact I
tend to stay away from python programs becuase the things take so damm
long to start -- which is the only thing .py[co] files can help with.
Once the program is loaded they can't actually make a difference, since
the compiled version stored on disk is the same thing the interpreter
generates when starting from just .py files. With Perl you can
generate code at run-time or defer the loading of modules, but that's
not what you are talking about AFAICS.
Marcelo
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