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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 20:31:44 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More speed increases for make-ing ports
Message-ID:  <46539980.1000506@math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070523005510.GB23386@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20070522172627.A52261@math.missouri.edu> <20070522235411.1B8275B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> <20070523005510.GB23386@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:54:11PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>> Would it be possible to check in some of these speedups?
>> Hoping that helps the xorg-7.2 upgrade some....  Thanks!
> 
> They will be committed later after careful testing.  The last thing we
> want to do is complicate user x.org upgrades by accidentally
> committing broken changes.  A slow but working build process is very
> much preferable to a fast but broken one :-)

While I am quite proud of some of the speed improvements I found 
(especially the sortdeps in pkg_create), I would hate to bear 
responsibility for severe port breakage, and so I am glad that these 
proposed changes will be carefully tested.

Best regards,
Stephen




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