[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH 5/5 v3] Add emerge --search-index option.

[Zac Medico]

On 11/03/2014 09:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> This updated patch causes indexed search to be enabled only for
> searchdesc, since indexed variants can actually be slower when
> only package names need to be searched.

With the recent pkg_desc_index_line_read optimization (removal of
package name and version validation), performance is better if we use
the index for emerge --search too. Therefore, revert back to the
previous version of this patch.
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Thanks,
Zac