On Friday 14 September 2007 09:52, Johannes Meixner wrote:
[...byte code files outdated...]
I've been wondering for a long time if we shouldn't seriously consider to
handle the byte code the same way Perl does: Byte-compile "on the fly" and
keep the byte code just in memory, never write it to disk. IMHO this would
make handling YCP code _much_ easier.
I have no clue just how much the overall performance gain due to byte code is
at all. It saves a syntax check for the byte-compiled code. Loops might be
faster.
But we don't byte-compile everything anyway, just modules (those that can be
imported). So exactly how big is the performance difference? Is it worth all
the hassle we have with the .ybc files? (Just think about build order etc.)
Maybe a topic for the upcoming YaST2 workshop.
CU
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Stefan Hundhammer