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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> Jesse Guardiani wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> First off, sorry if this isn't the right place! |
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>> I didn't see anything more appropriate though, except |
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>> perhaps Portage-dev, but I'm not a developer. |
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>> I'm a FreeBSD user switching to Gentoo for my home |
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>> system. Linux 2.6 is a LOT more stable than any |
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>> FreeBSD 5.x-RELEASE kernels right now, and Linux |
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>> has much better support for Wine and such. |
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>> One of the most obvious differences between FreeBSD |
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>> ports and Gentoo Portage is how LONG it takes to |
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>> search for ports/packages with Portage. |
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>> I have 525 ports installed on my FreeBSD laptop right |
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>> now, and probably only half of that installed on the |
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>> Gentoo machine, but the gentoo machine crunches a lot |
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>> more doing a --search than the FreeBSD machine does |
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>> with a pkg_version -vs 'name'. |
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>> And forget about --searchdesc! That takes ages! |
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>> Is portage not hash indexed or something? |
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> The main problem is this.... the portage database is a file system based |
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> mechanism. That is to say, when you update, search or otherwise use |
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> emerge, the program is busy as hell leafing through thousands of files |
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> looking for what you want.. |
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> "Hashed", "indexed"??? Not even close.... |
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> Portage is begging for a decent database engine and I pray it's sql |
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> based.... |
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> The other hitch is that portage is written in an interpreted language, |
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> Python. Python is an excellent programming language, no doubt about it, |
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> but performance isn't one of it's highlights. Moving portage to C would be |
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> so much better.... |
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What about O'Caml? Nearly as fast as C, but without the bugs... |
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Hard to learn, yes, but technically very appealing. It can even compile |
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directly into machine code on many platforms. I recently learned |
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O'Caml so I could write a billing system hook and keep it fast. It's |
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a very nice language. |
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Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator |
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