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Please, it's really unfair to single out Linux GUI tools. Basic system utilities are also written in python, like yum, which masks its slowness by doing network

by anon4 12y ago

Please, it's really unfair to single out Linux GUI tools. Basic system utilities are also written in python, like yum, which masks its slowness by doing network access on each invocation and makes you think that's why it's so slow.

pjmlp 12y ago
I singled out GUIs, because it seems to be so pervasive nowadays, as if the coders couldn't do better.
gldsmth 12y ago
And yum has always been much slower than apt-get.
danieldk 12y ago
...and it it used to be far worse. In the old days it was spending most of its time parsing metadata, until the C metadata parser introduced, and later sqlite databases were added to repositories as an alternative for the XML metadata. I even backported the C metadata parser to CentOS 3 and 4, because it was a whole different experience altogether: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-May/001732.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-May/0017...