Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] signrom: Speed up checksum calculation

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-01-23 21:08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 01:25 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Am 23.01.2012 20:19, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>>> On 2012-01-23 20:16, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>>> Am 23.01.2012 19:38, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>>>>
>> [snip]
>>>> What about replacing the whole script by a python script?
>>>> That would save about 6 more forks :-)
>>>
>>> I think we have no python dependency in the build system yet - while we
>>> have for awk. That was also the original reason to go for a shell
>>> script.
>>>
>>> If the situation changed, I would not vote against python, for sure.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>
>> We do. Even configure will fail now without Python:
>>
>> if ! has $python; then
>> echo "Python not found. Use --python=/path/to/python"
>> exit 1
>> fi
>>
>> QEMU depends on Python = Python 2 for QAPI, tracing and maybe more.
>> See scripts/*.py.
> 
> I've been thinking that we could potentially rewrite a large chunk
> (all?) of configure in python too since we have such a hard dependency now.

Sounds almost like a GSoC project. Or work for someone who did something
nasty ;). At least it's no afternoon hack when done properly.

However, I will now write signrom.py. That's much shorter.

Jan


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