[Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios (original) (raw)

Cosmin Stejerean cstejerean at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 19:21:05 CET 2008

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: This is true. Performance is not everything to everyone. Most Bazaar users don't care at all; they say things like "who cares about a few seconds in bzr log when it gets the merge right almost every time". But we don't yet know that most Python core developers will feel the same way, and it simply is not appropriate at this point in time to dismiss performance concerns with "oh, I'm sure they all can scale."

We're Python programmers. We're used to people telling us our tool is too slow. We just say it does the job superbly and it's usually fast enough. :) - -Barry

I don't agree with completely dismissing performance just because it's Python. Yes, Python is fast enough most of the time, but when it's not we put a lot of effort into making it faster. That's why we have a good collection of modules with C extensions to speed up computationally intensive applications and half a dozen ways of writing said C extensions. I see no excuse to let the fact that it's Python make it acceptable to have an application with otherwise unacceptable performance.

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