Re: [OT] benchmarking typical programs

2012-09-21 Thread Paulo Edgar Castro
How open to craziness are you A program, any program on any language can only do so many things right ? Write/Read to memory Write/Read to disk Write/Read to the network Write/Read to a given port ( Serial / Parallel / USB ) Write/Read to another program ( I might be missing something,

Re: 2 depend or not 2 depend

2010-02-16 Thread Paulo Edgar Castro
Also, having your dependencies coming directly from version control, rather than via installed packages gives you a couple of advantages 1: It's possible to have more than one checkout of the dependencies at the same time, and trivially swap between them 2: It's easy to bisect problems

2 depend or not 2 depend

2010-02-04 Thread Paulo Edgar Castro
Dear mongers, I come to you in the hope of enlightenment At the place were I work we a have a perl software suite that depends on roughly 148 modules not counting of course on the dependencies that these 148 modules have. Ignoring the fact that we currently have a perl binary which has