From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26894 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 17:06:21 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Apr 2004 17:06:22 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BD4t3-0000tk-Ok for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:06:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 32611 invoked by uid 50004); 12 Apr 2004 17:06:00 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29218 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2004 17:05:59 +0000 From: Todd Berman To: Andrew Gaffney Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <407ACAF6.1020101@skylineaero.com> References: <200404110755.05096.tom@securescience.net> <200404120803.16933.tom@securescience.net> <20040412122343.GD19192@lion.gg3.net> <200404120836.16542.tom@securescience.net> <1081782749.25073.6.camel@carbon> <407AC251.8040702@skylineaero.com> <1081786998.2075.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <407ACAF6.1020101@skylineaero.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1081789396.2075.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5.6 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:03:18 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers X-Archives-Salt: ed2829bd-682a-4313-ab9e-72aa23a4c3c2 X-Archives-Hash: c4bdc98500be8784e82adc2ef825b106 On Mon, 2004-12-04 at 11:59 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Todd Berman wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-04 at 11:22 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > >>Troy Dack wrote: > >> > >>>Another point against a monolithic zip containing all the ebuilds (or > >>>even per directory zips) is the performance hit that slow machines would > >>>take, not everybody runs gentoo on a 2GHz plus machine (eg: my little > >>>PII-400 in the corner) > >> > >>Or my little P233 Thinkpad... > >> > > > > > > And with the current setup of writing thousands of 1K files that little > > p233 thinkpad really flys i bet... > > I'm not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic, but yes, it does fly. It only takes > slightly longer to sync than my Athlon 1.3GHz desktop. The only part that takes forever is > updating the portage cache. That's why I just use a NFS shared portage tree from my > desktop machine now. In a way it was and in a way it wasn't. I honestly don't understand how you can explain to me that a compression-less zip file be any slower than the current setup. With compression I could understand, but without I don't think any speed difference would be noticeable. However, even with compression the operation should be fairly fast. zip is not like a tar.gz or tar.bz2, ie, you can read a file out of it and search through it fairly fast, and you don't have to uncompress the entire archive to get a single file. --Todd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list