[Twisted-Python] Proposal: Make tax default, tap optional

Donovan Preston dp at twistedmatrix.com
Fri May 31 18:04:16 EDT 2002


On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:

> Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>
>> A tap file is about a thousand times faster than a tax, at present, 
>> and I don't
>> have any plans for making it faster.  In general, I *don't* tweak my 
>> options
>> after I run 'mktap'...
>
> Maybe you don't - other people may want to. And startup speed is very 
> unimportant.

Startup speed is fairly important to me (not terribly, but fairly...)

Here's what I suggest: By default, create both. Then, each time a tap is 
to be loaded, check to see if the modification date on the tax is newer. 
If it is, load the tax, and save the tap.

Donovan





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