On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 4:19 PM Till Wegmüller <toaster...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > IPS works on images of the OS. And it does so in an Atomic way. Speed is > not the main goal. Stability is. > As a historical interlude, speed was very much a key focus of creating IPS to replace SVR4 packaging. One of the key criticisms of the old packaging system was that it was considered inordinately slow (one manifestation of this was that the development workflow for Solaris involved installing updated bits, SVR4 was too slow for impatient engineers, hence bfu as a hack, but that rendered the system unsupportable, but is what led to onu). The emphasis on performance can be seen in several areas of the design - downloading and updating just the files you need rather than whole packages; eliminating the overhead of maintaining the shared contents file. It's unfortunate that the original aim of improving performance got lost along the way. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
