On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:41:36PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:18 PM -0700 4/14/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 14, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > > > My hope is that if I get far enough along into the pkg-data > > > project, the result would be that many of the common operations > > > would be faster. However, right now I can only say "that is one > > > of my goals", and I can't prove it would actually happen... > > > >There's only a few things that execute external commands in the > >common code path of port makefiles. I've been working hard to > >remove or limit them, and as I mentioned above it's possible to > >optimize the current framework a lot further without too much > >hard work. > > Hmm. Well, if the pkg-data ideas did not actually speed things > up (as I hope they will), then that would eliminate one of the > main reasons that I have been interested in investigating them. > I do still suspect pkg-data would be faster, but maybe it won't > be as much of a difference as I am hoping it will be. I wouldn't want to bet the farm without seeing it in action, i.e. this isn't a selling point unless you can show it to be true. Kris
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