Hi, On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> I agree with you that dpkg and other tools are dog slow. I got the feeling > that especially scripts are very slow on m68k (interpreted languages). > The performance difference between AmigaOS and Linux is enourmous, even when > you consider the overhead of memory protection and other stuff. And the > difference is getting bigger and bigger. I really badly noticed some time ago with a package which took a really long to complete its test suite (I think it was db4.5), where even arm needed only a half hour, even our fast machines where busy for a day. I looked a bit into it and according to top half that time was spend in tcl. I looked a bit into it and my current best guess is that some string function could use some more optimizations... bye, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
