Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make > index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in > pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKGNAME" for every installed package. Now > "make -V PKGNAME" should be a speedy operation, but the make has to load > in and analyze bsd.port.mk, a quite complicated file with about 200,000 > characters in it, when all it is needing to do is to figure out the > value of the variable PKGNAME.
As long as far-out ideas are being discussed, how about caching such information (including dependenices) in a file (I'd call it a database but then I'd had to start a holy war :) ) so it's calculated only once, preferably on the portsnap / cvsup servers and not at the end-user?
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