On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:

Mostly Aaron/Thomas,

Did you guys happen to see this? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=617286 http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~kk219459/mkinitcpio/

This guy made mkinitcpio 3-4 times faster (he claims). I can believe it, and although it runs quite fast on my quad-core desktop box, it definitely crawls on my Eee. You might have to poke him to provide diffs and separate patches, but he does seem willing to help you guys out.

I saw it (he emailed me), but it's basically just one giant code change, so I was hesitant to do anything about it. Considering mkinitcpio runs very rarely, I wasn't stoked to go ahead with that. If you're interested, see if we could get separate changes from him....