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

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 01/23/2012 02:32 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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.

That's a good idea!

> Or work for someone who did something nasty ;).

Shhh, don't tell any students that :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> At least it's no afternoon hack when done properly.
>
> However, I will now write signrom.py. That's much shorter.
>
> Jan
>