More speed increases for make-ing ports

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Montgomery-Smith p?e v ?t 22. 05. 2007 v 16:56 -0500:
>>
>>>> I have generated two INDEXes, one with the patch and one without.
>>> They
>>>> are identical, the timings:
>>>>
>>>> INDEX-orig
>>>> real    16m32.761s
>>>> user    18m36.802s
>>>> sys     8m38.610s
>>>>
>>>> INDEX-ddd
>>>> real    16m34.620s
>>>> user    17m25.976s
>>>> sys     8m46.333s
>>
>>> Sorry it didn't work out.  Thanks for trying it.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong - the minute saved here is good enough reason to
>> apply that patch.
>>
>>> Could you try the "shell" one also?  I got the impression it was a bit
>>> faster.
>>
>> Can you send me the patch?
> 
> Yes.  In the same place as the previous one you put:
> 
> .ifdef _USE_GNOME
> _USE_GNOME!=(for i in ${_USE_GNOME}; do ${ECHO_CMD} $$i; done) | sort -u
> .endif
> 
> I'm going to try it out myself also to see if it is faster.

I tried it out.  On my rather fast computer, I am getting similar times. 
  The non-shell patch seems slightly better, but there is not much 
between that and the shell patch.  Both patches give something like 7% 
speed improvements over the original.  It only potentially speeds up 
gnome ports, and then only a few of them like alacarte, so even if it 
dramatically speeds those few up, the average speed up over all ports 
will not be so great.  Like I said earlier, overall improvement is 
noticeable albeit not dramatic.

Stephen