[pypy-dev] PyPy/python newb - need dbm other than dumbdbm anddbm

Kelly F. Hickel kfh at mqsoftware.com
Wed Feb 11 19:49:59 CET 2009


> >
> > Try to use psyco to speed up cvs2svn. I'm afraid PyPy right know
> would
> > not give you any improvements in performance from CPython for this
> > (maybe even psyco will not help).
> >
> > ps: Isn't cvs2svn a one time thing?
> >
> > --
> > Leonardo Santagada
> > santagada at gmail.com
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give it a try. I had looked at pysco
> back in June, but got the impression that I'd be better off with
> PyPy....
> 
> Yes, cvs2svn is a one time thing in principle, but I've been running
it
> a number of times, trying different things, as a means of validating
> the
> switch to git (cvs2svn also does cvs2git).  Since it takes 6.5 days on
> a
> 2.4ghz AMD with 32gb of ram to translate our repo, even a small tweak
> to
> the process is quite expensive....
> 
> -Kelly


Ahh, yes, now I remember.  Psyco ONLY works with 32 bit python, whereas
I MUST use 64 bit because the memory footprint for cvs2svn with our repo
is just too large for 32 bit processes.

So, dead in the water again?

-Kelly



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