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Still waiting for swap prefetch

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 25, 2007 23:53 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by kune
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

Besides, for a GUI program "written in Python" all the expensive code is actually in libraries that are written in C or C++, with a thin binding to allow calls from Python. yum isn't slow because of Python, but because it does way too many system calls and I/O.


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