Comment by dontlaugh

Comment by dontlaugh 2 days ago

Enough of it is performance sensitive that Fil-C is not an option.

Fil-C is useful for the long tail of C/C++ that no one will bother to rewrite and is still usable if slow.

procaryote 2 days ago

How is apt performance sensitive?

kragen 2 days ago

Apt has been painfully slow since I started using Debian last millennium, but I suspect it's not because it uses a lot of CPU, or it would be snappy by now.

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dontlaugh 2 days ago

It parses formats and does TLS, I’m assuming it’d be quite bad. I don’t think you can mix and match.

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- jitl 2 days ago
  
  stuff that talks to "the internet" and runs as "root" seems like a good thing to build with filc.
  
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  loeg a day ago
  
  It probably uses OS sandboxing primitives already.
  
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