Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 21:12 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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....

FWIW, I'm working right now on improving Python's performance:
  http://bugs.python.org/issue10399

...well, I will be, once I stop checking mail :)

Dave