From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 16:57:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F368016A46B for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 16:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A0513C458 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 16:57:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4SGuhQY098618; Mon, 28 May 2007 17:56:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk from=m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk; sender-id=permerror; spf=permerror X-SenderID: Sendmail Sender-ID Filter v0.2.14 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk l4SGuhQY098618 Message-ID: <465B09CB.8040704@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:56:43 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070521) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <4659EF80.70100__16104.363036766$1180300054$gmane$org@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Mon, 28 May 2007 17:56:55 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.2/3311/Mon May 28 01:21:25 2007 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_POLICY_TESTING, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 16:57:10 -0000 -----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-----