From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3TDTCPR017836 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:29:12 GMT Received: from stargazer.weeve.org ([24.8.204.228]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2005042913291601400ku3a7e>; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:29:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:29:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Jason Wever To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft In-Reply-To: <5a67a16f050428161738959aa1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200504281840.23788.lanius@gentoo.org> <1114726922.9265.4.camel@tom.tomaw.org> <5a67a16f050428161738959aa1@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 3c3f90b2-46e3-43aa-94e5-0a1b5383ec01 X-Archives-Hash: 7d11b5b87338d9286147839dca88468e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Athul Acharya wrote: >> Purging old versions for a few seconds speed increase in portage [snip] > > Few seconds? Try few miliseconds, if anything, at all, ever. The > original email in this thread gave me the best laugh I've had in a > while, until I realized it came from a dev; then I was very sad. Please don't assume everyone is running your latest and greatest PC hardware, or processors that measure in the GHz, regardless of architecture. We have officially supported architectures where a few seconds may be a generous statement of the delay (low end SPARC64 systems for instance). The initialization delay of portage is very much felt here, either via emerge or other tools like equery. Cheers, - -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCcjardKvgdVioq28RApS3AJ9CsdeTu90RaRiZzK/4xPq8Y4B9KgCfVX0H KkUrEoT37V7brPnZSW8oX0A= =wbrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list