Cable, Cisco 3000, Python -long (was Re: [SPAM] Re: SCP speed question)

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Very nice code indeed.  I am a recent convert to Python, by way of Perl, Java, 
> and C.  Yes, Python does a load of things right.  And if you need a boost, 
> look into PSYCHO.  It's basically like a JITC.
> 
> I recently wrote a disassembler which does a *ton* of text manipulation and 
> markup.  To complete the process on /bin/bash (my performance measurement) 
> took over an hour to begin with.  I was able to improve performance 
> significantly through cached lookups of memory addresses and optimization of 
> code, but even through optimization I was only able to drop it to about 2 
> minutes...  (only)
> Psycho drops this to under a minute (roughly 40 secs). 
> 
> 
> Added the following lines to the beginning of the initial "executeable" 
> script:
> ############  psyco optimization.  If you do not use psyco, comment this out
> import psyco
> psyco.log("/var/tmp/disass-ng.psycho.log")
> psyco.full()
> ############

Thanks. I've never bumped up against any performance worries with Python. 
Probably I'm just not doing anything that demanding. But psycho looks very 
interesting.

Michael