Still, while I mostly prefer python to perl too these days, we have to
consider that perl is already a pre-requisite for projects using autoconf,
automake, and/or gnulib, so using perl would have the advantage of not
adding another requirement to the maintainer toolchain.
On 15.09.2011 11:37, Jim Meyering wrote:
I'm sure that a perl-based
implementation would be far more efficient, and probably faster
even if the perl implementation doesn't run its tests in parallel.
Perl is well suited to this task.
I'm sure some will object to Perl's syntax, but not I.
Hi Martin.
On Thursday 15 September 2011, Martin von wrote:
On 15.09.2011 11:37, Jim Meyering wrote:
I'm sure that a perl-based
implementation would be far more efficient, and probably faster
even if the perl implementation doesn't run its tests in parallel.
Perl is well suited to
Hi Stefano.
On 15.09.2011 21:08, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Perl versions from 5.8 onwards should have a threading interface too,
if I'm not mistaken. I don't know how powerful or easy-to-use it is,
though.
Afaik ithreads support is an optional feature, not sure how distros out
there handle
