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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 emerge, |
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the program is busy as hell leafing through thousands of files looking for |
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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, but |
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performance isn't one of it's highlights. Moving portage to C would be so |
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much better.... |
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