Screen orientation and backlight sensing for the Nexus 7

[Robert Bruce Park]

Agreed. We are trying really hard to make Friends work as an event-based daemon that only runs when it is responding to something, rather than being a long-running daemon. And we're profiling the hell out of it so that it's not such a burden when it is running.

But if I had known back when I was hired that mobile was such a huge focus, I would have advocated for rewriting it in vala, not python.

Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Bryce Harrington [2013-01-18 18:37 -0800]:
>> Would bash or python be ok?  I'm guessing this isn't performance
>> critical, and it looks like everything in nexus.go could be done in
>> either of those languages.
>
>Can we pretty please stop writing long-running daemons in Python? As
>much as I like it for applications, its startup cost, increased memory
>requirements, and comparatively low performance/high battery usage
>behaviour for such tasks which involve polling many times a second
>make Python the wrong choice for writing daemons on mobile platforms.
>
>Martin
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