Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 05:12:51 UTC 2010


On 11/18/10 10:58 AM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> ----- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:29:56PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>>>> Most code is not performance critical.
>>> 
>>> Much more code than you think is performance critical,
>>> particularly when I can throw up 1000 instances of it in the
>>> cloud.
>>> 
>>> /me considers making snide comment about Python and how many
>>> extra power stations we've built because of it ...
> Allow me: if we all turned off python apps for one hour, we would
> save enough electricity to power the entire world for a year.

That electricity would be eaten up on developer workstations for the
increased code development, compile, and debug time it would take to
write the same tools in other languages....

/me ducks

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Jesse Keating
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