Dumb python questions

[Andrew Kuchling]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> The fact that you're already finding such performance bugs, that
> must have been there for ages (xdrlib is pretty old, I think),

And also rarely used, I'd imagine.  Who uses SUN-RPC any more?  Unless
someone sets out to implement NIS or NFS in pure Python, it's not
clear that anyone uses xdrlib, and there's little point in optimizing
things no one uses.

--amk