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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably
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Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another challenge is to make dependency resolution parallel

It's a challange but won't solve the problem: On fast processors
portage's speed is not so much a big issue. Moreover, the factor
you can obtain this way is in the (unrealistic) best case at most
the number of cores. Realistically, on a dual core perhaps the
factor 1.3 (and at the price of blocking parallel running applications
correspondingly more).