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Date:      Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:47:12 +0300
From:      Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Subject:   Re: Optimising generated rules for SAT solving (5/12 are duplicates)
Message-ID:  <402001479919632@web11o.yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <e9e1571b-443a-2452-926b-1d9f5b2f8e37@selasky.org>
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23.11.2016, 19:42, "Hans Petter Selasky" <hps@selasky.org>:
> On 11/23/16 17:27, Ed Schouten wrote:
>>  Hi Hans,
>>
>>  2016-11-23 15:27 GMT+01:00 Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>:
>>>  I've made a patch to hopefully optimise SAT solving in our pkg utility.
>>
>>  Nice! Do you by any chance have any numbers that show the performance
>>  improvements made by this change?
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> I tried measuring with "time", but figured out that it was doing a lot
> of other stuff too. Isolating this piece of code was not so easy.
>
>  > Assuming that the SAT solver of
>>  pkg(1) uses an algorithm similar to DPLL[1], a change like this would
>>  affect performance linearly. My guess is therefore that the running
>>  time is reduced by approximately 5/12. Is this correct?
>>
>>  By the way, why attach a zip file with a diff? GitHub's pull requests
>>  are awesome! :-)
>
> GitHub wouldn't allow me to make a .diff attachment.

If you really want to be nasty and not submit your change as a pull request,
GitHub allows you to paste your patch as a comment:

```diff
<your patch contents here>
```


>
>>  [1] Davis-Putnam-Logemann-Loveland algorithm:
>>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPLL_algorithm
>
> --HPS
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-- 
Regards,
Konstantin



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