OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc completeness

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon May 28 20:28:43 UTC 2012


On Tue, 29 May 2012 06:04:03 +1000 Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com>
wrote:

> My experience is that it now takes about 2½ minutes on 10.x with warm
> caches, compared to less than 1 second on 8.x.  For most of that time,
> there's no output and there's no warning of the increased time.  I
> actually wrote about the poor performance here a couple of weeks ago.

One solution may be to remove some really old files. If we assume that
we only support updates to major version X from the last release of
major version X-1 we could maybe remove everything which was already
obsolete in major version X-1 (or X-2 if you want to play safe).

Bye,
Alexander.

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