why python is slower than java?

[Steve Holden]

Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:53:26 +0000, Israel Raj T wrote:
> 
>>As for non desktop apps, the entire portage system of Gentoo is written in
>>Python. 'emerge sync' causes a python app to synchronise a local
>>application database with database at a non-local mirror. It is i/o
>>intensive and appears to work very well and very fast.
> 
> 
> "emerge sync" mostly runs an rsync command (at least on standard
> installs). The python contribution to that process is minimal.
> 
> The primary slowdown with "emerge" appears to be the way the database is
> stored as many thousands of little files in /usr/portage. Again, not
> really python; you want to accelerate emerge, speed up your hard drive. 
> 
> (They have more cached metadata now at least in the cutting-edge release,
> but as that is the one I use I don't know if that is now considered
> stable. It has really sped things up. A couple more iterations and Python
> might actually become the bottleneck.)

Jeremy:

I just noticed your date is set a month ahead.

regards
  Steve
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