From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:19:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Message-ID: <774D124B-B37E-40D4-9C0F-B8B2E9C70288@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070907T055946-637@post.gmane.org>

El 7/9/2007, a las 6:06, Paul Wankadia escribió:

> Wincent Colaiuta <win <at> wincent.com> writes:
>
>>> I just wanted to get a sense of how many people share this "Git  
>>> should
>>> be in pure C" doctrine.
>>
>> Count me as one of them. Git is all about speed, and C is the best
>> choice for speed, especially in context of Git's workload.
>
> I concur, but I also feel that D, Clean and OCaml are viable  
> alternatives.

Yes, they have reputation for speed[1], but also a smaller number of  
people know them[2].

[1] <http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php? 
test=all&lang=all>
[2] <http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm>

Cheers,
Wincent