Hi, On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Yamaban wrote:
contain timestamps of their source file and will not be used unless it matches exactly. Why do we (and redhat) even include them? In Debian packages have only .py files and the precompiled .pyc files get added upon package installation.
I wonder if .pyc or .pyo bring any advantages at all at this time?
On slow HW, esp with rotating rust, YES.
Any numbers to convince me? :)
But "compile on install" ala debian - best controlled by config setting - seems the the way to go forward fast in this aspect.
Actually I would do such compilation in a deferred scheme, not directly at install time (or well, maybe that's acceptable as well if not taking too much time).
This will become more imporatant, as other script languages will follow with precompiled files, esp. for system-libs, say hello to the debates on perl6 doing such a thing, and ruby devs also looks into that, never mind what php7 tries.
Yeah, true. I actually loath "script" languages that have a compiled form, that seems a work-around for some fundamental mis-design of them ("whohooo, our parser is so slow" - "yeah, well, it's a script language, right?" - "but ... but, I want it to be fast" - "and I want a rosa pony, go dying"). Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org