Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v4 00/26] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:37:15 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote: [...] > - src/rpc/gendispatch.pl > - src/rpc/genprotocol.pl > - tools/wireshark/util/genxdrstub.pl [...] > Note that the check-spacing.py script is significantly > slower in Python than in Perl. After researching this > it appears there is nothing that can be done. The Perl > regex engine is simply much better optimized than the > Python one. As previously discussed we need to loook > at uncrustify or clang-format or some other tool to > validate whitespace formatting. This is ongoing. We > can either accept the slow down in the short term or > keep the Perl version in the short term. I vote for keeping the perl version then. I don't see much value in rewriting it into a much slower form just to drop it soon after.