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On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:59, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:38:58 +0900 |
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> Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Yep. That's the scanning of all installed packages for any |
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> > provided virtuals. |
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> Maybe that's a stupid idea, but I wonder whether removing empty |
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> PROVIDE files from the vardb could save some time here. I see |
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> that in grabfile(), if the file can't be opened, then an empty |
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> list is returned, so it would have the same behavior. Does |
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> reading an empty file takes more time than failing to open a |
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> non-existing one? (Yep, I don't know much about how filesystems |
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> actually work...) |
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real 0m9.925s # With |
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real 0m9.913s # Without |
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That's timings for 20 imports of portage. Can't really confirm either way from |
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those results. It might make a difference when the system cache is empty. My |
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as yet unnumbered virtuals glep would negate this altogether. ;) |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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