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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:55
Message-Id: 20090514203347.4e82ef6c@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 by Patrick Lauer
1 On Thu, 14 May 2009 21:24:14 +0200
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > > "so with glep55 caching it is actually slower!"
4 > >
5 > > There's no possible way that can make sense. Whatever he's claiming
6 > > by that is obviously nonsense.
7 >
8 > Ah. I was not precise enough.
9 >
10 > Let me rephrase it in less ambiguous terms then -
11 >
12 > "Having EAPI in the ebuild is slower than having it encoded in the
13 > filename"
14 >
15 > Counterpoint: No, you use caching if it is that darn slow
16
17 Cache it where? There's already a cache, and introducing any new cache
18 will only slow things down, not speed them up.
19
20 And you still haven't justified how glep 55 makes it slower.
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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