Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:25:08 +0000 From: Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> Subject: Re: svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout? Message-ID: <20130118032508.445fa43b@archlinux.ca> In-Reply-To: <20130117045431.GB5392@external.screwed.box> References: <20130116185832.GB8524@external.screwed.box> <50F6FD37.5060309@gmail.com> <20130116193534.GC8524@external.screwed.box> <50F704CE.3010904@gmail.com> <20130116200754.GD8524@external.screwed.box> <50F70C60.4000108@FreeBSD.org> <20130116205533.GE8524@external.screwed.box> <20130117045431.GB5392@external.screwed.box>
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Peter Vereshagin wrote: >I believe 'amd64' is the common architecture these days and 'perl malloc' is the >feature needed for profiling and/or leaks detection. > >Good news is that such a stuff can be redone with forks instead of threads but >it should take me the time amount I'm not supposed to have of the any early. > >By itself perl threading has a fabulously bad luck history, recently >criticized for instance at: > > https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-is-not-dead-it-is-a-dead-end > >Thank you. Hi, I'm the author of svn-export. I haven't really touched the code since I wrote it in 2009 and back then I tended to write most things in noobish Perl. Although it should not be difficult to replace threading with forking (and I agree that Perl threading is generally to be avoided), I think I would rather just rewrite it cleanly in Python. Among other things it will simplify argument parsing and subprocess invocation via standard library functions. This would be in Python 3 but I could try to restrict it to be compatible with Python 2 if necessary. Would that be better than patching/porting the current Perl version? If so then I will put it on my todo list, but I am unlikely to have any time in the coming weeks to work on it. Incidentally, when looking at the code now I noticed that there were some SVN options missing. I have added those in today's release. Regards, Xyne p.s. I have not subscribed to this list, so please keep me in CC if you would like me to reply (in case this isn't done automatically).
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