Comments on: GNOME-Zeitgeist improving!

By: Kalen

Kalen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:24 +0000

By: pollycoke :) » Ottime notizie: Zeitgeist/Mayanna resta in Python!

pollycoke :) » Ottime notizie: Zeitgeist/Mayanna resta in Python! — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:29:54 +0000

[...] “GNOME-Zeitgeist porting ridicule“). La notizia viene direttamente da Seif Lotfy, che ha commentato con un inequivocabile: “We decided to stay with Python!“. Decisione saggia e a quanto [...]

By: Dejan

Dejan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +0000

How is this project going? I agree with the posters who told you to use Vala.

By: Vexorian

Vexorian — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:54:09 +0000

Mono fans? Wanting SPEED? hahahahaha…

Sugar is completely built on python, nevertheless the computers are very light on CPU cycles, and kids behind an OLPC just enjoy it… I’ve seen kids try it and never did anyone notice any python ‘slowness’. Besides, Mono itself is not exactly the holy grail of speed. I think it is rather funny Mono fans would go berserk whenever you suggest a project to make a port out of MS technology… yet they are the first ones to attack python…

By: beerseller

beerseller — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:26:09 +0000

Personally, I am behind Vala. There is no need to use Mono in one of the key components. And so many swears that gnome pulls a whole bunch.

By: PatR

PatR — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:51:56 +0000

@Angry Anonymous Yah sure, c or c++ is way faster starting up, and I see this beeing important. I just wanted to give some reason not to port to mono =]. If porting, then c, c++, vala. Or if you want absolute speed then fortran 77 =] Greetings

By: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:37:48 +0000

#gnome-shell and #gnome-zeitgeist on irc.gnome.org

By: Angry Anonymous

Angry Anonymous — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:36:21 +0000

@Seif Lotfy I'm looking for the gnome-shell irc or something to put the verbiage on them. They need it.

By: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:55:57 +0000

@Angry Anonymous Again I never intended it to replace anything. I actually want to write a plugin for nautilus. But I guess you are here just to critisize everything. You are entitled to your opinion. But instead of being so picky I would suggest you hack up something else that you think could improve GNOME. Cheers

By: Angry Anonymous

Angry Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:51:32 +0000

> By the way, just in case you didnt hear it: Google plans to bring a
> python JIT by the end of 2009, based on LLVM, targeted to be 5-10 times
> faster than CPhython

I think you are adult enough to trust to tales? Similar thing already have been done for the python: psyco. It was faster about 5 to 10 times as well. But while intensive computations with large amount of data it was as slow as CPython and was about 200 times slow than pure C or C++. So it would be about 20 times slower than C (I think it would suck even more). But the point is with JIT program startup is getting worse. Python now starts quite slow. But with JIT it would start even slower. Keep in mind: startup is one of the most significant things in desktop applications expirience.