From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.treblig.org (mx.treblig.org [46.235.229.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E59003BFE25 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=46.235.229.95 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770295833; cv=none; b=u0jdFvHgybE7CsQXhbg7+ugM5Yx91Y1S5Bd4YCg7Gh4oQE1ZjSAuEMCiMNpwBgKNxBKHj0iQuDmvVfoawJs4LA4v33wsRVepki9avk3Aw7GxYemSxepxiN2OQCJeTHlW64tjxmlIFVPX7SrXhKSfjRqsYKqmKjU7cMij2MscRFY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1770295833; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wL7N6uM0kgXAyrDv2iJAkiw8WJ46qc3mA2HG43vhL90=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=W+1c65K1pUHYu838Du7ug2G6KE/nF588g5PhfhobNN4rtl0ZiRaEi0xCYORGxsI7E+FK+E+dJIliEO+Ulq6LawKFSoiX2/7hZKEkSkF7kFMz91wyanbj2g3seatmGMNUXdheMnb2VZUsOsfccROux5GLkqu1A0MdhX+4iX5PCvg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=treblig.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=treblig.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=treblig.org header.i=@treblig.org header.b=hpqzacrM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=46.235.229.95 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=treblig.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=treblig.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=treblig.org header.i=@treblig.org header.b="hpqzacrM" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=treblig.org ; s=bytemarkmx; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject:From:Date:From :Subject; bh=o0OFaDPZVokASYXb24gtt2efhu04PBppuKZMNoPGxBo=; b=hpqzacrMKpr9eVtp RpHFPHp1SoITbQfB9oSXKlro02KQt5dTJE5jUHlFMUSwGzGJ1xL61YCD8NE0CnmuIS6rzJZBjv1Pv 2/pKG5y49Lx9qeE86VYhZO4yRm807Jfi1l6d4rDVg01Kw/MbI5W+4owwJvvD8BH9Y0GIBwatCfhVs njaNgKQn1xORZrNEtvoa2tvYuPxLrlnEJYyNSuJIe6BjcSk6pByfRd+qqSL0n/PZFPzSRN4NLuG6y zOIGVJdYI/ub1ydT7phsMxZGKfDTXPZKMTfDM7+VqHnGq2+rjArLAEfe1bS1Ova/5fVXRRErbr8iH TjkE5Nn+X0we3b461w==; Received: from dg by mx.treblig.org with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1vnyoY-00000001xE0-3gRR; Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:50:30 +0000 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:50:30 +0000 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= , Fabiano Rosas , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau , Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel , kvm , Helge Deller , Oliver Steffen , Stefano Garzarella , Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen , Kevin Wolf , German Maglione , Hanna Reitz , Paolo Bonzini , Philippe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu-Daud=E9?= , Thomas Huth , Mark Cave-Ayland , Alex Bennee , Pierrick Bouvier Subject: Re: Modern HMP Message-ID: References: <871pjigf6z.fsf_-_@pond.sub.org> <87ikctg8a8.fsf@pond.sub.org> <87ikctk5ss.fsf@suse.de> <875x8d0w32.fsf@pond.sub.org> <87ms1nu1fj.fsf@pond.sub.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87ms1nu1fj.fsf@pond.sub.org> X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (x86_64) X-Uptime: 12:49:56 up 101 days, 12:26, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.13 (2024-03-09) * Markus Armbruster (armbru@redhat.com) wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > > [...] > > > I did see you suggesting for Rust for it; which would work - although > > given it wouldn't be performance sensitive, Python would seem reasonable. > > Marc-André suggested "Python or Rust (student choice)". > > Daniel argued for Rust "as it allows the possibility to embed that Rust > impl inside the current QEMU binaries, to fully replace the C code and > retain broadly the same functionality." > > If we're not interested in such embedding, then Python feels preferable > to me, because I'd expect it to get us to the finish line faster. Ah ok, the either-or embedding thing sounds neat; but does sound like it would complicate stuff. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ dave @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/