On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> > My point was that using eix is faster than posting to the list and
> > awaiting a reply. The same is not necessarily true of emerge -s :(
> >   
> 
> depends on your harddisk and filesystem. emerge -s can be as fast as
> eix on my box.

On a reasonably fast system (dual core 64 bit with RAID5 over SATA2):

eix lafilefixer  0.03s user 0.01s system 13% cpu 0.288 total
emerge -s lafilefixer  1.37s user 0.19s system 63% cpu 2.460 total

almost ten times as long.

On a much slower system, Dell Mini 10:

eix lafilefixer  0.17s user 0.05s system 17% cpu 1.251 total
emerge -s lafilefixer  8.64s user 1.46s system 42% cpu 23.803 total

Nearer twenty times as long.

So the conclusion is that if you spend enough on hardware, emerge -s is
only ten times slower than eix :-O


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