[illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs dependencies

[Jesus Cea]

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On 12/11/10 01:17, Erik Trimble wrote:
> That said, one thing we do need to watch is execution time, for those
> programs that are frequently run via batching or scripting. I've seen a
> lot of fingers pointed at IPS being slow due to python's execution
> overhead.  Now, I'm not sure that really was the case, but it is
> something we do have to watch - those utilities where execution speed is
> a concern are definitely a candidate for C rather than python, even if
> it comes at the expense of code complexity.

I agree. But the IPS performance issue because of python was not proved,
and integrating a bit of C inside a python project can make a huge
difference.

See Mercurial, for instance.

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