Using shell commands versus C equivalents

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

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> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
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>> PS I'm looking at pkg_install and pkg_version mostly, but I'll be looking 
>> into the other package utilities closely in the next couple weeks, 
>> evaluating what approaches I should take in solving some bottlenecks with 
>> installing packages and ports. My goals are up on 
>> <http://wiki.freebsd.org/GarrettCooper>, and will be modified soon.
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> Since you are interested in speeding up the pkg_* stuff, I thought I would 
> bring these to your attention (speed ups to the pkg_create and port 
> registration processes, not quite what you are doing, but related).
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> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112765
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112630
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> Let me also wish you good luck in your speed improvements.  I was rather 
> encouraged by these two, but all my future searches proved somewhat negative. 
> In particular I looked rather hard at trying to speed up "make" (required for 
> pkg_version when it calls "make -V PKGNAME" multiple times). I can tell you 
> that in that instance, replacing linear lists by berkeley DB made no difference 
> at all - it was very disappointing.  In short, you really want to do a lot of 
> profiling and see where the speed bottlenecks really are before writing lots of 
> code.
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> Stephen

Stephen,
       I have no control over the Makefile revisions, but I'll talk with Kirill about the pkg_* integration / testing, and be sure to note you on the change if it is integrated.
       I'll take your comments into consideration though :).
-Garrett