Re: [gentoo-user] Library file formats

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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
> 

and the difference is still just a second