On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS I'm looking at pkg_install and pkg_version mostly, but I'll be looking
into the other package utilities closely in the next couple weeks, evaluating
what approaches I should take in solving some bottlenecks with installing
packages and ports. My goals are up on
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/GarrettCooper>, and will be modified soon.
Since you are interested in speeding up the pkg_* stuff, I thought I would
bring these to your attention (speed ups to the pkg_create and port
registration processes, not quite what you are doing, but related).
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112765
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112630
Let me also wish you good luck in your speed improvements. I was rather
encouraged by these two, but all my future searches proved somewhat
negative. In particular I looked rather hard at trying to speed up "make"
(required for pkg_version when it calls "make -V PKGNAME" multiple times).
I can tell you that in that instance, replacing linear lists by berkeley
DB made no difference at all - it was very disappointing. In short, you
really want to do a lot of profiling and see where the speed bottlenecks
really are before writing lots of code.
Stephen
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