[webkit-dev] Script programming language: Perl, Python, or Ruby?

[Dirk Pranke]

I suspect that Maciej is right and whatever speedup we would see would
be inconsequential. It's still a slightly cleaner design to not have
to shell out to Ruby from Python, jumping from one scripting language
to another. The deadlocking issue is a serious issue, blocking us from
increasing our usage of new-run-webkit-tests, but simply porting
PrettyPatch isn't going to fix it (for the record, I am actively
working on fixing the deadlocking issue).

But until we can put a stake into old-run-webkit-tests, we can't
delete the ruby version anyway (well, I guess we could shell out from
Perl to Python, but that would be only slightly less goofy).

-- Dirk

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> Oh, I didn't see your second post either.  Sounds like porting everything
> into Python would speed up new-run-webkit-tests?  Then I'm all for it.  I
> think other folks would be equally convinced as well if you could kindly
> measure the time difference between Ruby + Python + shell script
> implementation vs Python implementation.
> - Ryosuke
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> Did you see the reply I sent on this thread? There are actually decent
>> reasons to rewrite the code into Python, to simplify and speed up the
>> new-run-webkit-tests implementation. Given that, do you still object
>> to the patch landing (since the work has already been done)?
>>
>> -- Dirk
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Sam Weinig <sam.weinig at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sorry, I seemed to have missed this thread.  Please do not rewrite
>> > scripts
>> > just to rewrite them in a language you like. WebKit's dependency on Ruby
>> > is
>> > here to stay. Just because python is common at Google does not make it
>> > universal.
>> > -Sam
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> So porting PrettyPatch to Python will make good benefit and should have
>> >> no
>> >> drawbacks.  I should go ahead.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:21, William Siegrist <wsiegrist at apple.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:43 PM, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> >   Can we run python scripts on bugs.webkit.org server?
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Bill
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> TAMURA Kent
>> >> Software Engineer, Google
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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