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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What happend to portage speed?
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Maybe the code to print out that "done" statement is unoptimized?

a la:

for(int i = 0; i < 10000000000000; i++);
printf("...done");

:)

John Nilsson wrote:
> Actually it seems most time is spent after each "...done" statement.
> 
> -John
> 
> söndagen den 31 augusti 2003 kl 16.16 skrev leio@hercules.dustbite.org:
> 
>> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, John Nilsson wrote:
>>
>>> No, no. The download is quick. But the calculation of deptree and that
>>> kind of things that takes so much time.
>>>
>>> Also what is this metadata directory? (Sorry for not RTFM).
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>
>> After every rsync it rebuilds the cache... at least by default.
>> That's what takes the most time with an emerge sync on my 166MHz 
>> computer.
>> It was discussed a while ago that the cache has changed maybe by 5%, but
>> it does it all again. Parses some things, writes lots of files to cache,
>> etc. There were ideas how to make it quick again, but unfortunately 
>> either
>> no-one has brought it to reality or into the official portage.
>> If that's not your speed problem, disregard this e-mail, but I believe
>> this the most time demanding operation with emerge sync as of now.
>>
>> Mart Raudsepp
>>
>>
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