From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 11:08:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BA716A412 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:08:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail4out.barnet.com.au (mail4.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE0C43D5D for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail4out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8539537B925; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:08:50 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <4549D1C2000109A13255E0@BarNet> Received: from mail4auth.barnet.com.au (mail4.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.125]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail4.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5E6428BE9; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:08:50 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail4auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD9637B5FC; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:08:49 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B280B6F; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:08:49 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:08:49 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Michel Talon Message-ID: <20061102110849.GC90162@k7.mavetju> References: <20061102105423.GA63547@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061102105423.GA63547@lpthe.jussieu.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building the INDEX X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:08:58 -0000 On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:54:23AM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > Today someone lent me a Core 2 Duo machine on which i have loaded FreeBSD-64. > Nice result is that both my python program (that i have multithreaded - but > there is room for improvement) and make index INDEX_JOBS=3 complete > building the INDEX in 8 minutes. Of course this program requires python, but > make index requires perl, which is not better. In view of this, one may Is that with the "make index" called from /usr/ports? The one which crawls through about 16000 iterations of bsd.port.mk? And all you needed to do was to replace the perl script with a python script? Impressive. I feel a "make index-python" target coming up. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/