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Hey, |
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has your project resulted in anything? :) |
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Just curios about perhaps nice portage additions ;) |
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Regards, |
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Necoro |
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Emma Strubell schrieb: |
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> Hi everyone. My name is Emma, and I am completely new to this list. I've |
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> been using Gentoo since 2004, including Portage of course, and before I say |
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> anything else I'd like to say thanks to everyone for such a kickass package |
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> management system!! |
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> Anyway, for my final project in my Data Structures & Algorithms class this |
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> semester, I would like to modify the search functionality in emerge. |
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> Something I've always noticed about 'emerge -s' or '-S' is that, in general, |
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> it takes a very long time to perform the searches. (Although, lately it does |
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> seem to be running faster, specifically on my laptop as opposed to my |
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> desktop. Strangely, though, it seems that when I do a simple 'emerge -av |
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> whatever' on my laptop it takes a very long time for emerge to find the |
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> package and/or determine the dependecies - whatever it's doing behind that |
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> spinner. I can definitely go into more detail about this if anyone's |
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> interested. It's really been puzzling me!) So, as my final project I've |
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> proposed to improve the time it takes to perform a search using emerge. My |
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> professor suggested that I look into implementing indexing. |
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> However, I've started looking at the code, and I must admit I'm pretty |
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> overwhelmed! I don't know where to start. I was wondering if anyone on here |
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> could give me a quick overview of how the search function currently works, |
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> an idea as to what could be modified or implemented in order to improve the |
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> running time of this code, or any tip really as to where I should start or |
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> what I should start looking at. I'd really appreciate any help or advice!! |
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> Thanks a lot, and keep on making my Debian-using professor jealous :] |
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> Emma |
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