More speed increases for make-ing ports

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at math.missouri.edu
Wed May 23 01:31:46 UTC 2007


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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