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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] signrom: Speed up checksum calculation
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:08:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1DBE22.609@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1DB432.3060804@mail.berlios.de>

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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Stefan
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-23 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-23 18:38 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] signrom: Speed up checksum calculation Jan Kiszka
2012-01-23 19:16 ` Stefan Weil
2012-01-23 19:19   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-23 19:25     ` Stefan Weil
2012-01-23 20:08       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-01-23 20:32         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-23 20:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-23 21:32             ` Stefan Weil
2012-01-24  9:43             ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-24  8:18         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-24 10:18   ` Christoph Egger
2012-01-24  8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini

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