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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:20:24
Message-Id: 484E918B.5060404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
2 > No no. Doing the seek to open a file in a different directory and then
3 > seeking back to your original directory over and over when otherwise
4 > you'd be doing nice linear opens on adjacent inodes in a single
5 > directory is where the performance hit is.
6 >
7 > Paludis is pretty much seek bound in a lot of cases.
8
9 Ok
10
11 > It's moving the relevant information further and further away from
12 > where it's supposed to be. It doubles the number of files a developer
13 > has to check in order to do simple ebuild maintenance.
14
15 I said one file per package, not per ebuild. It only doubles the number
16 of files if there's only one ebuild in a given package :)
17
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