Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:56:43 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports Message-ID: <465B09CB.8040704@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <f3cuvl$3q5$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <4659EF80.70100__16104.363036766$1180300054$gmane$org@math.missouri.edu> <f3cuvl$3q5$1@sea.gmane.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Ivan Voras wrote: > 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? Good idea. http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/portindex/ Been done before though. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWwnL8Mjk52CukIwRCNDLAJ4jFCpr5y7uAQi97mVRV3Pc4+c99ACeN9vQ tOc6IzTQ90+wObG34KWQzzw= =XuiO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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